leftoverscript
/ˈlɛftəʊvəˌskrɪpt/nounVerified NewThe stock of half-finished antibiotics and painkillers that households share informally instead of obtaining new prescriptions.
"I had some left from my tooth" launches a course of someone else's tablets, saved in a bathroom cabinet against the next crisis. It feels thrifty and neighbourly; it is also how resistance spreads through a kitchen drawer. Leftoverscript names the household's shadow pharmacy — legal, common, and mostly unexamined.
Etym. — leftover + script (prescription) — the economy of the unfinished course.
Rel. — medsediment
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