 The question is, why do you have older drugs around your house in the first place? Dr. John Swartzberg is head of the editorial board at the UC Berkeley Wellness Letter. We don't want unused medicines around our house because they could get in the wrong hands. Like a little child who could take them and have a serious overdose. An older teenager who could take them to get high and have a serious problem with them. And we don't want older medicines around your house because we don't want to take them anyway.