This is what I found
when I went looking through all our medicine cabinets. Not 1 but 13 expired EpiPen
cylinders. Since they come in packages of two, I’m not sure what happened to my
No. 14 but maybe it’s now in medicine cabinet limbo. I have been searching of some
Sudafed for my teen. She has been sick with the flu which has now turned into a
very bad sinus infection. We are on currently on day 9 of being home and just
feeling plain, yucky!
Just like old cars in
a junkyard, my teen’s expired EpiPens have landed in my medicine cabinet
waiting be turned into scrap, but where to dispose of them? Our local Walgreen Pharmacy used to collect all expired auto-injectors which I loved because all I had to
do was ease into the drive up window and drop them off. It was just that easy
and so convenient since there is always a Walgreen's just around the corner.
Apparently this change
came around 2010, which would be the date on the oldest EpiPen in my junkyard
stash. I have since made a call to our local Police Department which has a
drop-off for expired medicine disposal, but they no longer accept any meds with
needles in them. So, my only option is to drop them off at our County Health
Department. Sigh! I’m not sure when I’ll get there!
Does anyone else have
a medicine cabinet that looks like this?
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