Right now I have a few medications in the safe that I no longer take. Some (like Lithium) I will definitely not take anymore because I developed kidney damage. Really, they should definitely be gotten rid of. Basically they sit in there just for no good. Others I doubt I'll take again. I just have them because I haven't gotten around to gathering them and taking them to the police station. And not my closest police station for my township (they don't take them), but the county police station. There the disposal is free. I could buy envelopes, which are tiny, from the pharmacy and send them to a proper disposal site, but the cost of the envelopes adds up, and why would I want to pay money to dispose of them? The stupid envelopes barely hold two small pill bottles. Some of mine are quite large since I used to get 90 day supplies.

Once my husband and I did go to the country police station. Then I had loads of old medications from even further in the past. The ones I mention above are just ones that have accumulated since.

I do keep old dosages of Seroquel XR and regular Seroquel because my dose of Seroquel XR sometimes changes, so it's good to have various pill dosages around. The regular Seroquel I sometimes use as "prns" when mania is coming on. Pdoc will have me take those during the day, which I usually only take Seroquel XR at night.

My husband bought the safe at one point when I was very unwell. Back then he'd lock the safe (me not knowing the combination), and only open it once per week for me to fill my pill boxes. But that was a long time ago. I still don't know the combination, but he keeps it unlocked.