All you need to know is that I spent a boatload of money for a cancer drug that didn’t do me any good and yesterday I was taken off of it and switched to a different one that probably will. It was somewhat of a surprise, so I had about a full month’s worth on hand, worth more than you will be getting from your economic stimulus package check. I’ve also been taken off lipitor and have some of that left over too, a measly maybe $50, $60.

I’m not stupid, I didn’t put it on ebay or craigslist under "drugs for sale". Selling prescription drugs is a no no. I want to give them away so I called a Rite Aid Pharmacist and explained that I would like to give these life saving drugs to someone unable to afford them. Give them away, got that? Still in the bottle or whatever you call pill containers? There is no profit in it for me and I’m willing to state they weren’t tampered with.

So, can’t be done, she said. She may not have known of an existing program.

I can donate an organ but I can’t donate unused pills? Doesn’t make sense does it? Prescriptions are changed all the time. People die all the time with a 3 month supply and yet people are dying because they can’t buy next week’s supply. We can help.

Do any of you know of some place where unused medications can be recycled? If not, do any of you have ideas about how to create such a place? We all know that people are out there unable to pay for lifesaving medicines and dying from lack of it. Maybe we can do something worth while.

Let me know. Let’s do something worthwhile tomorrow. In the mean time,

Sleep well tonight.

Pat Chandler