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Drugs
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Ensuring Safe Use of Medicine
By being an informed consumer and being involved in your health care, you can decrease the risks and get the most benefits from your medicine. The following materials will help you, working with your health care professionals, to make informed choices when using medicine.
To obtain printed copies of any of these materials, please email your request by title to: dpapubs@fda.hhs.gov. You can also call 301-796-3703 or 1-888-INFO-FDA.
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Safe Disposal of Medicines
- Disposal by Flushing of Certain Unused Medicines: What You Should Know (10/14/2009)
- Medication Disposal: Questions and Answers (10/14/2009)
- "How to Dispose of Unused Medicines." This Consumer Update article from June 2008 gives some tips for disposing safely of expired medicines and medicines you no longer need.
Information on Tablet Splitting
- Best Practices for Tablet Splitting
- Tablet Splitting: A Risky Practice - FDA Consumer Update
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