The UK's health secretary admitted giving partial prescriptions of leftover antibiotics to others. This is very dangerous as taking a short course of antibiotics promotes resistance.

It may also be illegal in the UK, but that is less important, morally, than the fact that it can be harmful. Preventing antibiotic resistance is the responsibility of everyone — including, above all, the farms that promote resistance by dispensing pounds and pounds of antibiotics to large numbers of animals that are not even sick.