Safe Disposal of Unwanted/ Unused Medications

For the past 4 years, the DEA made it easy with their National "Drug Take Back Days". But the final DEA collection was last fall, so now what? We still have them, unused medications. So what should responsible people do? There is a lot of outdated and erroneous information on-line. But I feel confident in directing you to the following 3 sources below:

DEA - The Drug Enforcement Agency has a search feature: www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov
Enter your zip code and it will list approved public disposal locations. In Massachusetts the two primary locations were Mass General Hospital in Boston and Beth Israel Deaconess in Plymouth. There were no locations listed in Maine.

FDA - A few weeks ago the US Food and Drug Administration posted guidelines "How to Dispose of Unused Medicines": http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm101653.htm
They explain why it is NOT appropriate to flush many prescriptions and they also recommend removing labels from the bottles, or at least marking them up so they are illegible.

Local Police - Probably the easiest. I called my local police station. The very nice sergeant I spoke to said they have a drop box in the main lobby of the police station, and all I had to do was walk in and drop off any unwanted medication. He also told me that the most local police stations have them.