Like use a cheap brown paper bag and stick the label on that. Cheaper and much less plastic waste. If I wanted a pill bottle, I can buy my own.
Kids man. Kids will get into everything. The pill bottle is supposed to slow them down.
Pharmacies shouldn’t give pill bottles
Submitted 3 weeks ago by bacon_pdp@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
And pets. A paper bag with smells inside means some dog will eat it.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They sell bottles with time locks and those that require keys.
Much safer than the push down screw type
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Are you asking because you want to see less plastic or you have issues with a saftey cap that doesn’t require a key?
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
it might be fine for most things but not when you get into controlled substances like pain killers, etc.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Can you please give me more information about how they improve that specific situation/medicine group?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Sure helps keep it out of the mouths of young children and pets.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Why bother with a paper bag? Save a tree, you have two hands and a pocket.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But pharmacists tend to do batch processing of prescriptions and I don’t want an undue burden to make their lives harder.
philpo@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Moisture was already noted,but also UV light (brown paper bags are far less UV resistant than you think) and oxygenation is an issue. Even bottles aren’t that good, actually. Blisters are actually better, but even a bit more wasteful.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You know…Those capsules and coated tablets are…you know…sensitive to moisture?
Example: My capsules get soft as soon as they get wet.
Imagine biting of a gummy bear and then sticking the remaining part on any dry surface. Those capsules can stick better than any gummy bear and they’ll rip apart very easily.After all they (some) are just made out of gelatine.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I get 120 days worth of meds at a time. A paper bag would be destroyed.
But the option would be good, so that I can reuse the bottle.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Just double bag it. 😤
Cherry@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Anyone could then tamper. These bottles are there for your safety and for those around you. It allows the product the be tracked in a recall. Regulations are usually there because of stuff like this.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Most pharmacies don’t fill prescriptions with tamper evident bottles. Perhaps you are thinking of the containers directly from the manufacturer?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yours maybe.
Mine bottle caps are sealed.
And the bottle has a aluminium seal on top (and it takes a knife or a pocket knife to puncture that. I tried with a finger. It hurt)CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Agree. Never have received tamper evident packaging from a pharmacy. what’s the point? They’re filled in front of me and handed to me.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is a terrible take because medication takers arent the source of the world’s plastic issues. This take is no different than shaming people into sorting their recycling when it just gets sent to some dump in China anyway and individuals, even en masse are not the drivers of mass pollution. Also people frequently reuse medication bottles to securely store various other things and keep them around indefinitey so they are probably one of the furthest things from “the problem” whatever the heck that problem is
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I use pill bottle for mixing paint
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
That shit is still plastic. Unless I am misunderstanding, OP’s problem is the plastic.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
They won’t come out and say it though.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well some medicines are so cheap that the manufacturers sell them in 2000 to 50000 pill bottles and the pharmacy just counts out 30-60 pills and sells them to people for $1 or $2
unmagical@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Guns should also be left in the open for children to play with since we’re on the topic of easy things we can change to threaten the life of those that may not know better yet!
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why would anyone put a pill bottle (or any other dangerous thing) within grabbing range of a small child?
unmagical@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Relying on a small child to stay on the ground in order to not accidentally kill themselves is a great way to end up with a dead kid.
Furniture should be anchored to a wall, guns locked in safes with the safety enabled and ammo removed, drugs in child resistant packaging locked in a cabinet, drawers and cabinets secured, etc.
Kids climb stuff, get into things, find things they shouldn’t, AND they emulate what they see their parents do. Putting something out of reach is nowhere near secure enough.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Children are like kids: At times absolutely unpredictable.
yggstyle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s almost like once upon a time we put shit in burlap sacks and paper and discovered that it was a moisture magnet. That’s good for pills right? A moist environment? Possibly warm depending on where you store it? That couldn’t possibly have adverse effects to sensitive compounds we ingest.
JASN_DE@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
What a fantastic way to destroy the meds.