I work as a private housekeeper for an elderly lady who has recently been diagnosed with dementia and will shortly be moving into a nursing home. Unfortunately she has no close family so I've been filling in that sort of area a lot.
She's been on a load of medication like lanprazole, tramadol, codeine, duloxitine, and various blood pressure meds (not all at the same time(. She hasn't been taking them reliably and there's about three boxes of each stacked up, still sealed.
The nursing home have said they can't take them to administer and when I spoke to the pharmacist today she made it clear that while they can take them back, even through they're sealed and in the original packaging, they will be destroyed. It must be hundreds of pounds of meds (there's at least three boxes of each)
I take lansoprazole myself - exactly the same dose and brand. The lady I work for has tried to give her unused ones to me several times but I've refused so far.
Would I be unreasonable to take them so they don't just get thrown away? It would also save me several prescription costs which would be great because I'm looking at not having a job very shortly. (Just to be clear - it's only the lansoprazole I'm considering- I am absolutely 100% not taking any of the painkillers)