What a fantastic way to destroy the meds.
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Kids man. Kids will get into everything. The pill bottle is supposed to slow them down.
And pets. A paper bag with smells inside means some dog will eat it.
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.
it might be fine for most things but not when you get into controlled substances like pain killers, etc.
Can you please give me more information about how they improve that specific situation/medicine group?
Sure helps keep it out of the mouths of young children and pets.
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.
Why bother with a paper bag? Save a tree, you have two hands and a pocket.
But pharmacists tend to do batch processing of prescriptions and I don’t want an undue burden to make their lives harder.
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.
Just double bag it. 🤷🏻♂️
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
I use pill bottles for mixing paint
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.
Most pharmacies don’t fill prescriptions with tamper evident bottles. Perhaps you are thinking of the containers directly from the manufacturer?
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.
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)
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.
why not a blister like the rest of the world?
That shit is still plastic. Unless I am misunderstanding, OP's problem is the plastic.
They won't come out and say it though.
Cheaper and much less plastic waste.
Pretty clearly written in the body of the post.
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