2 Your Well-Being: Time to clean out your medicine cabinet

GREENSBORO, N.C. — When's the last time you looked in your medicine cabinet? Odds are it's been a while. In today's 2 Your Well-Being, our expert is Dr. Ashley East, the Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator at Cone Health Community Pharmacy at MedCenter Greensboro shows us what to get rid of and what to keep. 

Dispose of old medicine

Placing prescriptions into a designated dropbox keeps medications out of our water supply and out of the hands of people who retrieve them from the trash to sell on the street or use themselves.

It also protects your family members from misusing drugs that can be dangerous or even deadly. Many teens abusing prescription drugs get them from their home medicine cabinets.

Do drop 

• Expired or unused medications
• Over the counter medications
• Medication samples
• Pet medications
• Medicated ointments and lotions
• Liquid Medications (Liquids cannot be accepted at the Greensboro Police Department drop boxes)
• Remove all personal information and place items in a sealed baggie before placing them in the dropbox.

Don't drop

• Needles/Lancets/Syringes
• Thermometers
• IV Bags
• Bloody or infectious Waste
• Hydrogen peroxide
• Empty containers
• Personal care products

Dropbox locations

Alamance County

• Alamance County Sheriff’s Office
  109 South Maple Street, Graham
  24 Hours a Day / 7 Days a Week

• Burlington Police Department
  267 West Front Street, Burlington
  Mon. - Fri. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Elon University Campus Safety and Police Department
  416 North Williamson Avenue, Elon
  Mon. - Sun. 5 a.m. - 7 p.m.

• Mebane Police Department
  116 West Center Street Mebane
  Mon. - Fri. 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

• Outpatient Pharmacy at Alamance Regional
  1238 Huffman Mill Road
  Grand Oaks Center
  Burlington, NC 27215
  Mon. - Fri. 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m

Guilford County

• Bennett’s Pharmacy
  (1st floor in Wendover Medical Center)
  301 Wendover Avenue East #115
  Greensboro, NC 27401

• Community Health and Wellness Pharmacy
  201 Wendover Ave East
  Greensboro, NC 27401

• Greensboro Police Department (Downtown)
  100 Police Plaza Greensboro
  24 Hours a Day / 7 Days a Week

• Greensboro Police Department
  300 Swing Road
  Greensboro, NC
  Mon. - Fri. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Greensboro Police Department
  1106 Maple Street
  Greensboro, NC
  Mon. - Fri. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Guilford County Sheriff's Office
  District 1 Office
  7506 Summerfield Road
  Summerfield, NC
  Mon. - Fri. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Guilford County Sheriff's Office
  District 2 Office in Stoney Creek
  6307-B Burlington Road
  Whitsett, NC
  Mon. - Fri. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• High Point Police Department
  1009 Leonard Avenue
  High Point, NC
  Open 24/7

• Outpatient Pharmacy at MedCenter High Point
  2630 Willard Dairy Road
  1st Floor
  High Point, NC 27265
  Mon. - Fri. 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m

• Outpatient Pharmacy at Moses Cone
  1131-D Church Street
  Greensboro, NC 27401
  Mon. - Fri. 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Outpatient Pharmacy at Wesley Long
  515 North Elam Avenue
  Greensboro, NC 27403
  Mon. - Fri. 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Randolph County

• Randolph County Sheriff’s Dept.
  727 McDowell Road
  Asheboro, NC 27205

• Randleman Police Department
  101 Hilliary Street
  Randleman, NC 27317

• Archdale Police Dept.
  305 Balfour Drive
  Archdale, NC 27263

Rockingham County

• Eden Police Department
  308 East Stadium Drive
  Eden, NC 27288

• Madison Police Department
  310 Carter Street
  Madison, NC 27025

• Reidsville Police Department
  220 West Morehead Street
  Reidsville, NC 27320

• Rockingham County Sherriff’s Dept.
  170 NC Hwy 65
  Reidsville, NC 27320