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Is It Safe to Take Expired Drugs?

It’s almost cold and flu season season—yes, we still get to enjoy those, even during the pandemic. Let’s say you wake up one morning all stuffed up with a scratchy and sore throat. As you try to convince yourself it isn’t COVID, you head to the medicine cabinet and discover that the only bottle of cold medication in there expired in 2012. (Oops... don’t let that happen!) Is it safe to take those o