 [ Symptoms ] i have some leftover darvocet is it safe to take that at my next schedule dosing time [ Disease ] if they have some leftover darvocet i would not recommend taking that we also want to make sure that people understand that they should not be saving medications and keeping them in their cabinets for a rainy day they need to dispose off them so therefore there is no risk of possible poisonings or teen drug abuse so one of the things we recommend now is disposing of your medications but not flushing them down the toilet there is a new procedure that is very easy to follow and all it requires is a ziploc bag get a ziploc bag and pour the medication into it put a little water into it to help it dissolve you may want to crush it take a hammer or a mallet and actually make sure it dissolves even more then take something like kitty litter or coffee grinds or sawdust and put it in the bag to make it very unattractive zip up the bag and put it in the trash it is that easy why is it so important that we want to get rid of our medications because unfortunately today teen drug abuse has really become a big problem especially in pain medications we find out that teens are going to their medicine cabinets right in their house and taking extra medications that were not used anymore