Health and Wellness
Time for a Medication Makeover?
Taking expired medications - both over-the-counter types and prescription drugs - can be harmful. Drugs lose their potency, and the harm is you don't get a full dosage and full effect.
It's important to give your medicine supply an annual makeover, making sure your medicines have not expired and are stored properly. Discard all medications that are past their expiration dates.
Use your bathroom medicine cabinet for toothpaste and such, not medications. Overexposure to moisture, heat and humidity may lower the potency of certain drugs. Keep medications in a cool, dry place instead.
Harris Interactive conducted the survey for McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals.
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