Question from Laura
What should I do with medications deemed dangerous that I have at home?
Hello Laura,
It may not have escaped your notice that the National Medicines and Health Products Safety Agency (ANSM) recently warned once morest the use of certain cold medications as winter approaches. For the ANSM, Actifed, Dolirhume, Nurofen, Humex, and Rhinadvil in particular, contain, only in their oral form, a molecule called pseudoephedrine, which would be dangerous and cause cardiac arrest and stroke in the patient.
What to do if you have one of these medications at home? Well, just like when you have expired medications, it is advisable to return them to the pharmacy. You can do this at any pharmacy, even if it is not the one where you bought them.
To do this, you must remove the instructions and the cardboard packaging and put them directly in your sorting bin. You only bring back what is left, the platelets for example. Please note that syringes should not be put away because they are part of Healthcare Waste with Infectious Risks (DASRI) and are hazardous waste.
Since 1993, there has been a system for recovering and reusing waste from the consumption of medicines by households.
Be careful, if you throw them away with wastewater or with your household waste, the medicines can be dangerous for the environment.
Sincerely,
Writing,
