Take control of your medicine chest in 5 simple steps
The American Medicine Chest Challenge
- Take inventory of your prescription and over-the-counter medicines
- Lock your medicine chest.
- Dispose of unused medicine properly in your home or at periodic community collection events. For more information on safe disposal of prescription and over-the-counter medications visit: http://www.smarxtdisposal.net
- Take your medicine(s) exactly as prescribed.
- Talk to your children about the dangers of prescription drug abuse...they are listening. Click here for useful parenting tips: Preventing Teen Abuse of Prescription Drugs and Facts On Prescription and Over-The-Counter Drugs.
For additional information visit Partnership for a Drug-Free America, National Institude on Drug Abuse, Stop Medicine Abuse and National Family Partnership.
National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign
The National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign has created a series of TV commercials to prevent and reduce youth drug use. Under the management of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the Campaign is a strategically integrated communications effort that combines advertising with public communications outreach to deliver anti-drug messages to America’s youth, their parents, and other influential adults.
