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How To Make Your Medicine Cabinet Eco-Friendly
Forbes, NY - Jul 7, 2008
But US Fish and Wildlife Service and health officials say proper medicine disposal may help reduce the environmental threat. "It's another opportunity to be ...
A final resting place for old drugs
Salt Lake Tribune, United States - Jul 3, 2008
By Dana Rimington Holly Plotnick, a Layton City police evidence officer, shows how to dispose of unused or expired medicine. The Police Department recently ...
Turn in old medicine for disposal
Orlando Sentinel, FL - Jul 2, 2008
All collected medicines will be taken to a hazardous-waste collection site to be disposed of properly by the Sheriff's Office. Mike Stephens, senior vice ...
?Operation Medicine Cabinet? medication disposal program debuts ...
Temple Terrace University Beacon, FL - Jun 23, 2008
TAMPA ? The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is spearheading a community service program called Operation Medicine Cabinet, aimed at educating and ...

About.com - Drugs
Is it Time to Overhaul Your Medicine Cabinet?
About.com - Drugs, NY - Jul 1, 2008
... out of your medicine cabinet. Check the expiration dates on all bottles and tubes. Set aside for proper disposal, all medications that have expired. ...
Inside Medicine: 'Green,' recycling don't always mesh
Sacramento Bee,  USA - Jun 22, 2008
In her opinion, that disposal of products should be the producer's responsibility ? after all they are the ones who profit from the sales. ...
Pill Disposal Day Helps Keepdrinking Water Free of Drugs
RedOrbit, TX - Jun 30, 2008
Local residents had the chance to clean out their medicine cabinets and drop off expired or unused drugs in the southeast parking lot of the hospital campus ...
Medicine Collection Event Held Over Weekend
North Central Ohio, OH - Jun 23, 2008
Area residents were encouraged to drop off over-the-counter and prescription medicines that were unused, unneeded or expired for disposal. ...
Public Health in Ghana: Write to the Health Minister Quashigah.
Modern Ghana, Ghana - Jun 29, 2008
Parliament should pass a law to make it obligatory for all importers and manufacturers of food and drinks, medicine, and body products to include on the ...
Local news briefs: Union families to protest high gas prices today ...
Mansfield News Journal, OH - Jun 19, 2008
Residents may bring unused, unneeded or expired medicines for disposal. Medicine should be in its original container with any personal information on the ...
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Waste management: expired drugs
SRR Haskell, CJ Ormond, LP Occhipinti, EL Powers - Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 2003 - Am Vet Med Assoc
... Policies for disposal of these expired substances should ... should be considered pesticides
and should not enter ... Livestock medicine containers should not be reused ...

[BOOK] Organon of Medicine -
S Hahnemann - 1906 - books.google.com
... 1 Non-medical persons have also found the treatment on the prin- ciple of similarity
of action to ... If experience should show that by medicines that possess ...

… risk management issues in the handling at home of over-the-counter medicines purchased for children -
BS Conroy, M BPharm, J Collier, NB RGN, KN Dip, SR … - PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL (VOL 271), 2003 - pjonline.com
... 23 Plastic medicine cups were used by 35 respondents ... no guide as to which end of
the range should be used ... members of the public not to keep expired and unwanted ...

Practice and Opinion towards Disposal of Unused Medication in Kuwait -
EA Abahussain, DE Ball, WC Matowe - Med Princ Pract, 2006 - content.karger.com
... for future use, the total unwanted medicine burden in the ... to the pharmacy [5] . This
should however not ... and values of unused or expired medicines for proper ...

[CITATION] Safety tips for the medicine cupboard: medicine cupboard
WTOSEEA DOCTOR - SA Pharmacist's Assistant, 2006 - Sabinet Online

Assisting in the administration of residents? medication -
I Legislation - Nursing & Residential Care, 2005 - internurse.com
... is required for a particu- lar medicine (such as ... Explain why prescribed medicines
should not be shared with others ... How would you dispose of expired medicines? ...

[PDF] Pharmacy Week 2008
L In - SA Pharmaceutical Journal, 2008 - sapj.co.za
... to dispose of unused and expired medicines in the ... dealing with unused medicine and
medical waste material. ... betes-screening services and should refer patients ...
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[PDF] WHEN TO TAKE MEDICINES WITHOUT A PRESCRIPTION
WTOSEEA DOCTOR - sapajournal.co.za
... dates of the medicines regularly and before using the medicine. ... Return expired medicines
to the pharmacy for proper disposal ... Needles should be disposed of in an ...
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[CITATION] The Home Medicine Chest
S Scott
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[PDF] South African Pharmacist's Assistant, Vol 5, No 1 (2005)
T Menton, J van Schoor - sapajournal.co.za
... Check if the medicine has any special storage instructions. For example, eye drops
once opened should be discarded after 30 days ... Take expired medicines back to ...
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How should I dispose of unneeded or expired medicines?

That depends on whom you ask.

Last year, for instance, the Harvard Heart Letter, a publication of Harvard Medical School, said neither flushing old drugs down the toilet nor throwing them out was a good method, because people and animals can get into the trash and drugs flushed away might end up in the water supply.

But this year, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy contradicted much of that with new guidelines telling people to throw old medicines in the trash. It suggested mixing leftover drugs with undesirable substances such as coffee grounds or kitty litter (it did not specify whether the kitty litter should be used or unused), and putting the result into containers so drugs could not be "diverted" to unsavory use.

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The federal guidelines also said some drugs should be flushed down the toilet, among them pain-killers such as Actiq and Duragesic Transdermal patches.

But that's anathema to environmentalists. "We recommend not flushing" any medications "down the toilet," said Athena Bradley , a projects manager at the Northeast Recycling Council, a nonprofit group with 10 member states. Instead, the group advocates community "take-back" centers or events that allow people to bring unused drugs to collection centers, an approach the government also likes.

Whatever you do, don't try to return controlled substances like the sleeping pill Ambien to a pharmacy, said Karen Ryle , supervisor of outpatient pharmacy at Massachusetts General Hospital. They're not allowed to accept them because of rules on how drugs should be destroyed and accounted for.

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