Re: Mon. 6/22, Tues. 6/23 Big Show Synopses

Brady wrote:
Hey, how's it goin'? Happy Hump Day. Here we go ...

- Monday, June 22, 2009 -

- Andy Kindler talking to recent college grads.

Were the recent grads interns from the show?

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- Tuesday, June 23, 2009 -

- The Top Ten List -- 'Things Lucas Glover Would Like to Say After Winning the US Open,' as presented in person by Lucas Glover.

Lucas gave one of the better readings by a non-actor guest.

*NEW SUMMER TOYS, WITH SHANNON EIS*
These were some pretty cool toys.

I noticed the band playing The Beatles' Flying while Dave was flying the switchblade.


*MSTRKRFT WITH JOHN LEGEND*
The album is "Fist of God."

I shudder to think of how they sound without John Legend.

*MISCELLANEOUS MEANDERING*

The Food and Drug Administration now advises people to refrain from disposing of old or unused prescriptions by pouring them down the drain or toilet, unless specified otherwise for certain medications. (There's a list of certain medications that the FDA *does* encourage you to dispose of by flushing them down the toilet.) So my question is: if an unused medication is flushed down a toilet that's connected to a residential septic tank, will the chemicals/bacteria in the septic tank effectively dissolve the medicine before it ever has a chance to seep into the water table? I mean, will the active ingredient in the medicine be rendered inert by the septic tank chemicals? By the same token, do unused prescriptions that make their way into municipal sewer systems biodegrade, even before making it to the water treatment plant?

My guess is that there is no single rule as different chemicals act differently. The FDA doesn't want to make a complex ruling to regulate which medicines would be okay to dump and which wouldn't according to which type of sewer system, so they simply recommend not flushing any of them.

Here's a related question. I guess this is a question specifically for Dr. Rod. I know that most (all?) prescription drugs have an expiration date, but after a certain amount of time -- on or after a given expiration date -- do the active ingredients in medications in fact become inert? I don't know if *inert* is the word I'm looking for here. You know what I mean.

The FDA cares about you getting an effective dose when you take medicine. After medicine expires, the dose you will get will be below their threshold for effective. There will always be some amount of the active ingredient in the medicine, just not enough to constitute a dose.

Tom W
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