Where does expired medicine go from the drugstore?

Samuel

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I can't seem to research this questions without getting bogged down in a thousand hits of either "How do I get rid of expired medicine?" or "What happens [chemically] to medicine when it expires?"

I was thinking about medicine charities, expired medicine is just reduced in effectiveness, it's better than no medicine. Does anyone know what drug stores do with expired medicine? Is there a service that collects it, do they throw it in the garbage? Do you think it would be useful to send it to countries that can't afford medicine?
 
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