The Health and Social Care Board and the Public Health Agency are encouraging people across Northern Ireland to take part in a “Bring Back Your Unused Medicine” week from 17^th to 23^rdSeptember 2018.

The Bring Back Your Unused Medicine campaign will encourage people to look in their cupboards, drawers and anywhere in the home they keep medicine and return any which they no longer use or have expired, to their local community pharmacies or dispose of them in the RAPID (Remove All Prescription and Illegal Drugs) bins which facilitate the disposal of unwanted drugs easily and discreetly.

Every year, many children and adults attend Emergency Departments after accidentally taking unused medicine left in homes and cabinets. Bring Back Your Unused Medicine, Bring Back Your Unused Medicine
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