By Douglas Throckmorton, MD, deputy director for Regulatory Programs, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA
Each year, Americans fill several billion prescriptions, including those for strong pain medications, but some of them go unused or expire before being consumed. The bottles may get pushed to the back of the medicine cabinet and forgotten until that space is needed for something else. So what should be done with them?
Most patients know not to share medications with others. They