Comments on: Don’t Dump Your Meds Down the Drain http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2010/09/20/dont-dump-your-meds-down-the-drain/ 68.3 Square Miles of D.C. News and Opinion Fri, 24 May 2013 12:45:13 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Charlie http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2010/09/20/dont-dump-your-meds-down-the-drain/comment-page-1/#comment-921850 Charlie Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:06:00 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=62251#comment-921850 Thanks for writing about this. I am sort of surprised that there isn't a requirement that pharmacies accept unused medications for disposal. Thanks for writing about this. I am sort of surprised that there isn't a requirement that pharmacies accept unused medications for disposal.

]]> By: Michael E. Grass http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2010/09/20/dont-dump-your-meds-down-the-drain/comment-page-1/#comment-921362 Michael E. Grass Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:20:43 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=62251#comment-921362 That last link to the turn-in locations should work. If not, try the link off of the larger turn-in page: http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/takeback/ That last link to the turn-in locations should work. If not, try the link off of the larger turn-in page:

http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/takeback/

]]> By: blue penn http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2010/09/20/dont-dump-your-meds-down-the-drain/comment-page-1/#comment-921356 blue penn Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:09:16 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=62251#comment-921356 The problem is complicated. Even if everyone stopped flushing medicine down the drain, our own natural flushing, so to speak, will send those chemicals into the local watershed anyway +++ I wonder if after having passed through the body and excreted out of our bodies, the meds are not diluted more than they are if dumped directly into the toidy? ++++ The DEA will be incinerating the turned-in medication and won't be flushing them down the drain. +++ I wonder why this isn't done on a regular basis then? Why isn't this promoted as the way to dispose of your meds. Like there could be a sign at pharmacies directing people to their nearest incinerating center. +++ Click here to find turn-in locations, including those at Metropolitan Police Department district stations. +++ That link did not work. The problem is complicated. Even if everyone stopped flushing medicine down the drain, our own natural flushing, so to speak, will send those chemicals into the local watershed anyway
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I wonder if after having passed through the body and excreted out of our bodies, the meds are not diluted more than they are if dumped directly into the toidy?
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The DEA will be incinerating the turned-in medication and won't be flushing them down the drain.
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I wonder why this isn't done on a regular basis then? Why isn't this promoted as the way to dispose of your meds. Like there could be a sign at pharmacies directing people to their nearest incinerating center.
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Click here to find turn-in locations, including those at Metropolitan Police Department district stations.
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That link did not work.

]]> By: Jamie http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2010/09/20/dont-dump-your-meds-down-the-drain/comment-page-1/#comment-921355 Jamie Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:07:33 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=62251#comment-921355 This sounds beyond ridiculous. People pour paint thinner and motor oil down their drains. I have a very hard time believing that some prescription drugs are even 1/1000th of one percent of the problem that industrial and other forms of waste are. This sounds beyond ridiculous. People pour paint thinner and motor oil down their drains. I have a very hard time believing that some prescription drugs are even 1/1000th of one percent of the problem that industrial and other forms of waste are.

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