If you were to look in your kitchen or bathroom cabinet, the chances are you’d find some unused medicine.

Medicine can be unused or left over for a number of reasons. Perhaps we decide not to take what our doctor prescribed, or we feel better so we think we no longer need it, or the doctor changes our medicine and prescribes something else.

Keeping medicines to use for reoccurring conditions, like migraines, is appropriate. But keeping antibiotics to use for a different infection can lead to treatment failure if those antibiotics do not target the new infection. When we use antibiotics incorrectly, bacteria can also change to become more resistant to treatment.

Stockpiling medicines at home can also be a safety problem. Children or pets can accidentally eat or drink them, older people can become confused about which ones to take, and medicines can lose their effectiveness or become toxic after their expiry date.

Then there are security issues such as theft. This is particularly relevant for opioid medicines (strong pain relievers like codeine) prescribed after surgery, which can be sold on the black market.

One recent US study found that most opioids prescribed after surgery were unused, and not stored or disposed of safely.

To find out what people do with their unused medicines, a survey of than 4,300 people was carried out.

Most people (75%) said they kept medicines in case they needed them in the future. Other reasons included not wanting to waste money, not knowing how to dispose of them, intending to give them to family and friends, or forgetting the medicines were there.

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