Ditching drugs down the toilet, literally, is not really sporting for those further downstream in the sewage processing passage, let alone the lobsters and crabs which lurk at sewage outlets and those who gorge upon their carcasses at great expense and sometime risk.
The statin argument rages and those on 40mg a day may sense a conflict of healthy interest. Those on a statin dose of 5mg or even 10mg a day perhaps more readily fall into the preventative category rather then the curative one.
A stroke may ensure free wheelchair transport for the remainder of one's life but the short sombre journey in a hearse is probably more to the liking of most of us?