How to regift my unwanted meds

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How to regift my unwanted meds

Barbara Docherty

Barbara Docherty

NEW ZEALAND DOCTOR
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Only 13 per cent of patients return unused meds but those that do are likely to be disappointed by what happens to them, writes Barbara Docherty

I thought I was doing the right thing. A trip to my pharmacy with a fistful of prescribed meds that had been sitting on my shelf and which, for one re