A major US retail pharmacy chain has announced that all 7,200 of its locations now offer the Sharps Compliance Inc. medication disposal system which allows customers to dispose unused or expired medication.

The postage-paid envelopes cost $3.99 each and allow customers to mail their unwanted prescription and over-the-counter medications to Sharp Compliance’s Texas facility for disposal. The system was previously in many CVS pharmacy locations, but it has now been expanded to all facilities.

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Clearly, this is a very good idea but I wonder, from the perspective of a country that enjoys a National Health Service which is free at the point of care, what will the uptake be?

The cost is modest, but it is cheaper still not to bother and I would anticipate that that would be the default, if not the correct, option.