America’s other drug problem.

Every year nursing homes nationwide flush, burn or throw out tons of valuable prescription drugs. From a platform above the incinerator’s maw, you can watch as thousands of dollars of potentially lifesaving pills and medications tumble, box by box, into the steaming opening. Then they are shoveled into the blaze.
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