<p>My son takes several prescription medications. I'm worried about someone stealing them. I was thinking of getting him a small safe (like a hotel size safe). Someone could steal the entire safe, but that we be a little obvious. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>This sounds like the same problem as storing any “valuable” items. I have a cashbox that looks like a safe, which has its own combination lock. If you are worried about the entire safe getting stolen, use a laptop lock and lock it to some piece of furniture in the room. </p>
<p>In my dorm, stolen items were never a concern so this may have seemed like excessive paranoia. But of course, there are places where you couldn’t be too careful.</p>
<p>I had no issue with theft whatsoever in my dorm. Kids left their doors open and laptops out – which is a bad decision regardless – and nothing ever got stolen.</p>
<p>Do they have abuse potential? (If you’re not sure, ask his pharmacist.) If so, I would definitely provide a safe or something similar. I’d probably ask the Housing department whether they have any suggestions. (I’d also keep in mind that if your son finds it too much of a bother to get the safe open, they may not be secured anyway.)</p>
<p>I take medication for ADHD and I simply kept my pills in one of my drawers… I didn’t broadcast that I had such medication and thus I had no problems.</p>
<p>My daughter got a little locking cabinet with wheels from Ikea before her freshman year. I don’t think she locks it all that often but she can if she needs to. We took it to school in the original flat box and she assemble it there. She now has a room in a house and uses it there for storage. A locking metal file cabinet is another idea.</p>
<p>I hollowed out an old, worthless textbook and store money and such in it. The book is clumped w/ my current semesters textbooks so that it’s inconspicuous.</p>
<p>My prescriptions aren’t abusable, but whenever I have something valuable/something that needs to be hidden, I put it some place inconspicuous that I won’t forget. If I have to store cash for a few days (I usually don’t carry any), I stick it in a book and put it on the shelf. Or I might put something extra valuable inside my stackable suitcases. No one is going to look in the inside pocket of a purse in a tote in a suitcase in a suitcase in a suitcase.</p>
<p>I would’ve thought a safe would call attention to itself and might lead to problems. If you have a simple bottle in your drawer, I don’t see why there would be any motivation to take it.</p>
<p>As long as he doesn’t go around telling tons of people he uses it (assuming it’s abusable), no one except maybe his roommate will notice and therefore no one will care.</p>
<p>Lock the room all the time. Regardless of the drugs, chances are there’s something in the room someone would want to steal. It may not happen often but it does happen to some people and you don’t want to be that person. Rule #1: When you leave the room and you’re roommate’s not in it, lock it.</p>