MEDICAL waste disposalPATIENT safetyOPIOID abuseCHILDRENUnused or expired medicines in the home have long been a major safety concern. For example, data calls suggest that from 2015–2019 a variety of medications were implicated in some of the most common, and the most severe, cases of ...
The current guidelines encourage reading the patient information that is dispensed with prescriptions to determine any specific disposal instructions. The preferred way to safely dispose of unwanted medicines is through medication "take-back" days that allow the public to bring medications to be discarded...
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Unused or expired medicines in the home have long been a major safety concern, and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has sponsored "take‐back" days in which patients can return unwanted medications to avoid the possibility of someone taking the drugs from their medicine cabinets. ...
Proper Storage and Disposal of MedicationsQuestion: My husband is recovering from a ruptured appendix, anda nurse said the medicine...Michael Roizen, MdMehmet Oz, Md
The article reports on the innovative efforts toward environmentally correct disposal of unwanted medications in the U.S. The Massachusetts Pharmacists Association presented Eaton Apothecary with Innovative Pharmacy Practice Award in recognition of the pharmacy's takeback event. Regulatory agencies, including...
Promoting proper disposal of unused, unwanted, or expired medications. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association.2014; 54(3):226Stergachis A. Promoting proper disposal of unused, unwanted, or expired medications. Journal of the American Phar macists Association. 2014; 54(3):226....
For all medications found in the home, medication hoarding, multiple storage locations of medication, lack of a medication administration routine, presence of discontinued medication repeats, and the Patient's understanding of generic versus trade names was identified.Niyaz Alam...
Study patients were then asked to complete a survey about how they disposed of their unused opioids at their last visit. The success of education and proper disposal of opioid medications were evaluated. Measurements and Main Results Thirty-one patients successfully completed both surveys. The ...