1. in a teenager's bedroom or jeans pocket (in the laundry);
2. on the floor after an all night party with your buddies;
3. in your husband's pocket;
4. in your own pocket after a night on the tiles;
5. in a plain bottle in the house of an elderly relative who is only marginally able to care for themselves;
6. any number of other places, I suppose.

If you find it connected to a family member, you might want to know what it is in case they have a medical condition that you are not aware of but should be. If someone in your household is taking recreational drugs that you didn't previously know about, it might help explain bizarre behaviour or physical symptoms. Then you would know whether it is something that you need to address or not. If you are legally responsible for the person in question, it is in your own interest to find out what chemicals they have running around their bloodstream because you may be legally responsible for their behaviour and its consequences.

The question implies that minding your own business is the best thing to do. With medical issues, that is seldom the case.

Besides, for the environmentally responsible, it is important to know if the pill is toxic or not in order to know whether it can be safely flushed or if it should be brought to a pharmacy for proper disposal.

The only people who should be answering these sorts of question are a pharmacists/doctors who have actually seen the pill. Not a load of amateurs who have NO idea what it is because they have not seen it. How many of you would actually trust a pill to be what it is if someone had told you what it was on ab? ergo what is the point of asking the question

Well you see, sometimes people buy pills off the street, such as xanax, valium, lortab, vicodin, oxycotin, percocet and so on and so forth. They don't all just look the same...

such as this:

If you have a lortab 10/500 and you get your RX filled at a CVS pharamcy, the pill is going to be PINK and have 3600 imprinted on the back.

If you go to a walgreens, the pill will be blue and will have imprints of Watson 540.

I only know this because I get a RX every month of lortab 10/500 for chronic pain. When i originally broke my back I was getting oxycotin and demerol. Depending on which pharamcy i filled my RX at depended on what the pill is going to look like.

This question has been asked many times before in different forms . See this one:

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/69299

They might have found it in their children's or teen's room, and want to know what it is in case it is something dangerous.

Great answer- I wasnt thinking in that vein...

You can go to pharmer.org and match the pill you have in hand to those in this book. Most prescription pills are listed by shape, color, numbering, etc.

i was wondering this but was afraid of the answer i would get also where did they get the pill?

I like to find out because the curiosity of not knowing is painful. Identifying it relieves my wonder of it's most likely my roomates, parents, or dogs. Plus, I like to weigh the benefits of possibly taking it. I'm not one to let a good xanax go to waste.