365 Days of De-Cluttering: Day 80

In the drawer I went through yesterday I found some very old prescription meds. Pain killers mostly from when various family members had to have oral surgery. Why I filled them I don't know and why they gave me prescriptions for a 30 tablets is even more a mystery. Frankly, the pain doesn't last that long and really wasn't that intense, I didn't use any of them. But I know you aren't supposed to just throw them away either. So I did some research. Basically, the USDA says you can just flush them down the toilet but conservation groups say no. Their recommendation is to desolve them in water, put the result in an opaque container and throw in the trash. That's for pill. For liquids, it recommends that you put it in something inedible like cat litter and then throw it in the trash. I have some dexamethazone that is in liquid form that I will do that with. That is what I'm discarding today.