If no family is present, home medications are considered abandoned and must be discarded.

• A. False
• B. Not specified
• C. Only for certain drugs
• D. True

Answer: (D)

The main idea is safe disposal when there’s no one to take responsibility for medications left at home. If there is no family or authorized person to claim and manage the medications, there’s no recipient to ensure they’re used properly or stored safely. In that situation, those medications are treated as abandoned from a safety and liability standpoint, and they should be discarded through the proper channels (for example, pharmacy take-back programs or approved disposal methods). For controlled substances, follow regulatory destruction procedures with proper documentation. The statement is true because safeguarding people and the environment requires disposing of unclaimed medications rather than keeping them around.