How to deal with expired medications? First of all, termly check your family medicine cabinet to find out expired medicines, and some of medicine that their labels are hard to read or ripped. Secondly, don't throw them to garbage or toilet, because they will enter our water systems. Take them back to your pharmacy where you bought them, they will dispose of them for you. Finally, if you have old over-the-counter medicines, you should take them to the special hazardous waste collection site to dispose them. This is how to deal with your expired medications. To insure your medicine cabinet always store safer medications.