From the article: Protecting Children from Prescription Drug Abuse
Teen prescription drug abuse is a growing problem. Research shows that most teens get the prescriptions that they misuse from their own homes or from friends, mainly from the family medicine cabinet. Where do you keep your medications? Post Your Answer
small garbage can
- I place mine between the liners if my small garbage can in my bedroom. This is to keep my adult son from finding them
- —Guest Teresa
best for me
- my tablets are mainly diuretic which I am Haapy to say after undergoing the TIPS operation in 2009 have thankfully got these tablets to take every day but with reducing doses, should anyone break in and find the tablets in the fridge, you could always trace them fussing to pee constantly.
- —Guest elaine
In the safe
- I keep my medication in the safe and put the key where only I know.
- —Guest Athini ludidi
Safe
- I keep my medication in a safe place. In a kitchen cabinet where most people would expect food to be kept. I keep most people in my life at arms length so they aren't even aware I'm on meds so I don't believe anyone would look for them.
- —Guest Kimberly
Not the best place
- I keep them out on the counter and while I do not have small children I know it is not the best.
- —Guest guest
Keep away from prying eyes!
- My (Effexor, Zoloft, lorazepam and my Geodon) could be a rush or money making field day for prying eyes at my college parties. I have them in a strongbox in the closet under a pile of old magazines/newspapers. I know that college kids like to dabble with meds (I once caught someone going through my dresser drawers). I'm not stupid and I really do need these meds. They can have all the claritin and ibuprofen they want out of my medicine cabinet! Just leave my needed meds alone!
- —Guest James
Hiding my meds for years
- I have been putting my meds in a secure place, not in the medicine cabinet for at least 10 years as I have had kids and grand kids and all their friends over. The thing that amazes me is that for the last ten years you and everybody else has been yelling about this and it seems no one listens? How stupid can you guys be that use the cabinet ? I am over the 50 mark and when I grew up my mom had "little blue pills" and I helped myself to them sometimes. People, where are your minds? This is only common sense with teens and preteens.
- —Guest margie
treasure chest
- I have an old cedar small chest in my bedroom with heirlooms. No one has interest in the contents. I keep my sleeping pills in it and I am the only one with the key. I also have a homemade blanket folded on top of the treasure chest. I have it folded my own way, and would know if anyone was fooling around the chest because they would never fold it the same.
- —Guest star
In a Safe
- I have my spouse keep my medications locked in a safe, and weekly I set my "non-addictive" medications up in a planner, then daily, my spouse will have to give me my addictive medications, so that I don't have the compulsion to "over-use"
- —Guest Danny
In the Safe
- We're too smart to be "trusting" in certain areas. All meds with consciousness-altering potential go in the safe. We're blessed with good health, so it isn't often we have them in the house, and I'm usually pretty aware of how many should be in the bottle anyway.
- —Shattah206
Kitchen Cabinet
- We keep our vitamins and supplements in a cabinet in the kitchen near the sink. We keep our prescription drugs in a drawer and out of sight. The cabinet acts as a decoy for anyone looking for the "medicine cabinet."
- —waders
