Emptying Your Medicine Chest
With the American Medicine Chest Challenge we are calling on residents to see their medicine cabinets through new eyes as an access point for potential misuse and abuse of over–‐the–‐counter and prescription medicine by young people.
The simple steps of securing and regularly emptying your medicine chest substantially reduces the availability of potent drugs that lead kids down a path to addiction.
To Take the Five–‐Step American Medicine Chest Challenge:
- Take inventory of your prescription and over-the-counter medicine
- Secure your medicine chest
- Dispose of your unused, unwanted and expired medicine in your home at an American Medicine Chest Challenge Disposal site (find a location here) or download the list here..
- Take your medicine(s) exactly as prescribed.
- Talk to your children about the dangers of prescription drug abuse.