OtherWise Christian Empowerment: Please don't do this--there's a better way: Tons of drugs dumped into wastewater.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Please don't do this--there's a better way: Tons of drugs dumped into wastewater.

AP Impact: Tons of drugs dumped into wastewater

Do you have any idea what you're drinking when you turn on the tap? Other peoples' drugs, probably.

There are other ways to handle drugs you may have that you don't want to keep--like expired over-the-counter meds, prescriptions that you will no longer continue to take--carry them back to the pharmacy where you bought them. Or, carry them to any pharmacy if you're not near the one where you made the purchase.

Pharmacies have 'safe return' procedures to take back unused meds. They do not flush them into the water system.

Our bodies are 2/3rds water. Please, for the present and the future, take your unused meds back to a pharmacy. Please don't flush them.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Water is precious. These dumped drugs will eventually end up in the ocean. As goes the sea, so go we.

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