[jaysay]

Was having a debate with a friend this morning regarding unused medication. Its a well known fact that lots of meds are over prescribed in the NHS, especially in cases where a certain med is stopped or changed. I know I'm not the only one on this site who are and lots of daily meds and from time to time I have had one med stopped and put on another, I manage my meds quite well and never allow anything to run out so I a certain med is stop I may have a full box in hand. I know we have people on here who work in pharmacy and I'm sure they will back me up when I say that if any unused meds are returned they are just destroyed and cannot be re issued. I could understand this in the years when tabs were dispensed in bottles, but today virtually all meds come in sealed containers so why can these medications not be recycled and re issued, they could be removed from there original boxes and dispensed in small boxes which even now happens from time to time. I don't know what anybody else feels on this subject, but with the cost of these new meds costing more and more money, merely to flush unused meds down the loo is a nonsense to me