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The following guidelines are for households and individual consumers only.
Where available, take your medications to a local collection event.
Contact your local pharmacy, recycling coordinator or municipality to find out if there is a household hazardous waste collection near you. While waiting for a collection event, keep all medications in a safe, secure place in your home out of reach of children.
To guard against unauthorized use of controlled substance medications, the NYS Department of Health must approve events that collect these substances. Before you take controlled substances to a collection event you should check with the event organizers to see if they are authorized to accept them.
Before placing in the trash, follow these steps.
If such medications include an attached needle, they should be placed in a puncture proof container, sealed with tape and labeled as "sharps." However, the state strongly recommends that medications with attached needles be disposed of at hospital-based household sharps collection programs. All hospitals in New York State (except for federal facilities) are required to collect sharps from households.
Medications without attached needles may be disposed of in household trash as described above.
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