Posted 9/3/2007 4:08 PM (GMT -8)
The Chemists in my area had a blitz on last year for people to return all their unwanted unused medication, a few weeks later they announced in the local paper from what was returned they'd come to the conclusion GP's were over prescribing.!
My sister's husbands Dad passed away a couple of years ago, (This was in the UK) and it seemed he was a bit of a hypercondriact, they discovered literally a garbage bin full of meds, seems he was working a few Doctors, the local Dr, who lives next door to them is from Africa somewhere, extremely poor country and he returns once a year to his village, and happily accepted all these unwanted meds to take back to his homeland as they were still viable.
GK