Medication Disposal Essay

Medication disposal guidelines for me as a medication aide, is to take the pill and dispose it into a Ziploc bag with coffee grounds. Then crush everything up and throw away into the trashcan. Unless it is a narcotic medication, then we have to send them back to the pharmacy and they dispose of them. If the medication comes with a label, make sure to permanent mark any information that’s could be on that bottle. Taking medication from a friend or family member could be very dangerous. If that medication was something new to you, you could have major side effects that the person that was prescribed did not have. Also, you could cause a reaction with the other medications you are taking. If a patient were to tell me that he was taking a families