Proper disposal of unused prescription medication remains a major public health priority for the FDA, particularly for prescription opioid pain medicines, due to our nation’s ongoing crisis of misuse, abuse, addiction and overdose.
In 2017, retail pharmacies dispensed more than 191 million opioid prescriptions to almost 60 million patients. According to FDA data, as many as 90% of patients who received a prescription for an opioid reported that they did not finish what was prescribed to them, leaving potentially millions of unused and unnecessary doses of opioids in households across
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