From dispensing to disposal: The role of student pharmacists in medication disposal and the implementation of a take-back program

2010 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 613-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Misty D. Gray-Winnett ◽  
Courtney S. Davis ◽  
Stephanie G. Yokley ◽  
Andrea S. Franks
Keyword(s):  
Take Back ◽  
Medication Disposal

scholarly journals Community Pharmacists’ Practice, Awareness, and Beliefs about Drug Disposal in Saudi Arabia

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 823
Author(s):  
Sultan Alghadeer ◽  
Mohammed N. Al-Arifi
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Community Pharmacists ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Community Pharmacies ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Take Back ◽  
Medication Disposal

The awareness among Saudi people regarding the good and safe practice of drug disposal is fairly low. Community pharmacists’ potential toward drugs disposal directions and practice are not emphasized enough. Therefore, a cross sectional study was conducted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to evaluate the practice, awareness and beliefs of community pharmacists about disposal of unused drugs. Out of 360 subjects who participated in the study, more than 70% returned the unused drugs to the pharmaceutical distributors. Around 80% of the participants confirmed the risk of environmental damage due to the inappropriate disposal of drugs, and 87.5% of them held themselves responsible for preventing such risk. Approximately 85% of surveyed pharmacists believed community pharmacies to be an appropriate location for the collection of unused drugs. There was no significant association between the community pharmacists’ age group and years of practice as community pharmacists with either the awareness of unused medication disposal on environmental hazards, or the beliefs about the appropriate location for collecting unused drugs (p > 0.05). The awareness and proactive accountable responsibility, along with community pharmacists’ belief of appointing pharmacies to collect unused drugs, strongly support the institution of drug take-back programs.

scholarly journals Practices of Jeddah Residents Regarding the Disposal of Unused and Expired Medications: A Community-Based Survey

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Afnan Ali Abuassonon ◽  
Bayader Salah Kalkatawi ◽  
Lamia Saeed Alzahrani ◽  
Basma Ghazi Eid ◽  
Thikryat A. Neamatallah
Keyword(s):  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Household Waste ◽  
National Program ◽  
Environmental Toxicity ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Take Back ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Unused Medications ◽  
Medication Disposal

Inappropriate disposal of stored medications leads to an increased risk of environmental toxicity. This study aims to examine practices of Jeddah residents with regard to disposing unused and/or expired medications and to view their opinions about the presence of drug take-back centres. Over a three-month period, 771 participants completed an online questionnaire, that focused on disposal methods and the importance of having drug retrieval centres. The data demonstrated that 91.57% of the participants reported discarding their expired medications in household waste, and 2.98% of them return their medications to hospitals or pharmacies. With respect to unused medications, 67.07% of the participants disposed of them in household waste, and only 10.84% donated their medications. This improper practice, however, contradicted the fact that 92.35% of the respondents were interested in knowing the appropriate methods of disposing. In addition, 90.66% agreed to the need for drug take-back centres. This study demonstrated that a low percentage of respondents knew about correct medication disposal. This emphasizes the need for the Ministry of Health, the pharmaceutical industry and pharmacies to collaborate on a national program about the proper methods of medication disposal and to initiate drug retrieval programs.

E-Waste Stream Analysis and Design Implications

2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Minjung Kwak ◽  
Sara Behdad ◽  
Yuan Zhao ◽  
Harrison Kim ◽  
Deborah Thurston
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Waste Stream ◽  
Waste Collection ◽  
Waste Recovery ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Multiple Generations ◽  
Incoming Stream ◽  
Take Back

The quantity and age of the incoming stream of “feedstock” from product take-back systems are known as the major sources of the uncertainty that complicates the e-waste recovery. This paper presents the results of an analysis of data from an incoming stream for an e-waste collection center and analyzes the quantity and age of e-waste by product type and brand. The analysis results point out receiving of outdated products and processing of multiple generations, and brands of products at the same time are among main obstacles to the e-waste recovery. The potential role of product design in overcoming those obstacles is discussed with emphasis on design for upgrade, repurpose, and commonality.

Review on Drug Waste Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 247-252
Author(s):  
S. D. Mankar ◽  
Madhuri Kawade ◽  
Shraddha Parjane
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Dosage Forms ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Safe Medication ◽  
Take Back ◽  
Awareness Programs ◽  
Medication Disposal ◽  
The Government ◽  
Drug Waste

Drug waste management is the alarming issue nowadays so provide more awareness from healthcare professionals and drug receiver. The pharmacist are in the admirable position to aware people about safe medication disposal. The safe medication disposal awareness in society leads to the sufficient good differences in public health and surroundings. the knowledge of the safe drug disposal is equally important that consumption of the medicines. The easiest solution to the drug pollution is to disposal of medicines properly. The aim of this review is the government have to maintain the drug disposal methods on the label of drugs and dosage forms. The collection of the drug is easier and they can authorize the collection in the take back program. The Indian government have to authorized the drug collection sites and registered business or various authorization for the collection of the drug safely, they also have to organize the various types of events like drug take back awareness events, awareness programs on the need of proper drug disposal and its conditions. The drug waste contains the expired and non-expired drugs.

Exceptional Times, Emergency Borders

2021 ◽  
pp. 26-59
Author(s):  
Nick Vaughan-Williams
Keyword(s):  
Border Security ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Take Back ◽  
Key Press ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
The Eu

Chapter 2 examines the role of elite governmental actors in producing the narrative of the so-called 2015 ‘migration crisis’ and creating the conditions under which walling and deterrent border security policies flourished. The first part of the chapter draws on key press releases, speeches, and policy documents issued by the EU Commission and its agencies in order to map the emergence and trajectory of this elite ‘crisis’ narrative from the so-called ‘ghost ship’ arrivals to the height of ‘irregular’ arrivals that year. The second part shows how this ahistorical, Euro-centric, and (post)colonial governmental frame—with its reductionist depiction of mobile populations and sanitized one-sided view of border-related violence—has been problematized and disaggregated by research that documents the experiences of those seeking entry to the EU. The third part draws on theoretical literatures on the politics of crisis in order to argue that, irrespective of its empirical accuracy, the so-called ‘crisis’ narrative has enabled the intensification of deterrent border security measures on- and off-shore and the re-emergence of disciplinary walling techniques among EU Member States in ways that would be otherwise unpalatable in liberal democracies during ‘non-crisis’ times. But while extant work on crisis enables a critical analysis of the politics of ‘crisis bordering’ that is essential for any attempt to grapple with the book’s overarching puzzle, ultimately it falls short of explaining why populist calls to ‘take back control’ have been stoked rather than satiated by such bordering and therefore it is necessary to investigate those calls—and their reception—among diverse publics in closer detail.

The contribution of the clinical pharmacist in palliative care

2021 ◽  
pp. 248-254
Author(s):  
Ebtesam Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Symptom Control ◽  
Pharmacy Practice ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
The Us ◽  
Medication Disposal ◽  
Medication Counselling

Pharmacists are exceptionally positioned to deliver expert medication consultation and teaching, thus creating a specialized role within the palliative care team to optimize and rationalize medication use. The role pharmacists play varies among different palliative care practice settings; however, all pharmacists participate in providing pharmaceutical care. Activities of pharmacists can include identifying and resolving adverse drug-related problems, reconciling medication, developing medication guidelines, helping patients and families with medication disposal, and providing medication counselling as well as patient psychological support. Pharmacy organizations support pharmacists as key members of interdisciplinary care, and there is growing recognition of the value of their contribution. This chapter reviews the role of clinical pharmacists and is based mainly on the situation in the US with additional information from other parts of the world. It highlights the positive impact of pharmacy practice through improved symptom control, identifying, preventing, and resolving medication-related problems.

Mythical State

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 255-271
Author(s):  
Nathaniel Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Arab Media ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Take Back ◽  
Digital Reproduction ◽  
Hearts And Minds

In the summer of 2014, on the heels of the declaration of a ‘caliphate’ by the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a wave of satirical production depicting the group flooded the Arab media landscape. Seemingly spontaneous in some instances and tightly measured in others, the Arab comedy offensive paralleled strategic efforts by the United States and its allies to ‘take back the Internet’ from ISIS propagandists. In this essay, I examine the role of aesthetics, broadly, and satire in particular, in the creation and execution of ‘counter-narratives’ in the war against ISIS. Drawing on the pioneering theories of Fred Forest and others, I argue that in the age of digital reproduction, truth-based messaging campaigns underestimate the power of myth in swaying hearts and minds. As a modus of expression conceived as an act of fabrication, satire is poised to counter myth with myth. But artists must balance a very fine line.

scholarly journals Medication disposal practices: Increasing patient and clinician education on safe methods

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 927-939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Kinrys ◽  
Alexandra K. Gold ◽  
John J. Worthington ◽  
Andrew A. Nierenberg
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Aquatic Environment ◽  
Water Contamination ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Safe Medication ◽  
Clinician Education ◽  
Medication Disposal ◽  
Existing Data

Recent research suggests that the nation’s water supply is contaminated with trace pharmaceuticals that exert a negative environmental and public health impact. Incorrect medication disposal methods (e.g. flushing medications down the toilet or drain) are a significant factor contributing to the presence of medication compounds in the aquatic environment. In this commentary, we provide a summary of the existing data on pharmaceuticals in the nation’s water as well as the role of improper medication disposal methods on water contamination. We discuss statistics on improper medication disposal practices among patients and clinicians as well as recent advances in proper medication disposal methods as a solution to this problem. Currently, many patients and clinicians are not aware of proper medication disposal practices. We summarize the importance of patient and clinician education in advancing environmental-safe medication disposal methods.

scholarly journals MEDICATION DISPOSAL; HOUSEHOLD PRACTICES IN KARACHI, PAKISTAN. NEED FOR A MEDICATION TAKE-BACK PROGRAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (09) ◽  
pp. 1380-1386
Author(s):  
Tazeen Husain ◽  
Sadaf Farooq ◽  
Madeeha Khan ◽  
Rabia Humayoon ◽  
Sabahat Jabeen
Keyword(s):  
Take Back ◽  
Medication Disposal

Multi-stakeholder policy modeling for collection and recycling of spent portable battery waste

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 577-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vimal Kumar Gupta ◽  
Rajendra Kumar Kaushal ◽  
Sheo Prasad Shukla
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Game Theory ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Policy Modeling ◽  
Safety Program ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Maximum Benefit ◽  
Take Back ◽  
Polluter Pays Principle ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

Policies have been structured for collection and recycling of spent portable battery waste within a framework of stakeholders (recycling council body, producer, recycler and consumer) especially for those battery units that are discarded worldwide because of their expensive cost of recycling. Applicability of stakeholders’ policies in their coalition framework have been reviewed and critically analyzed using the Shapley value of cooperative game theory models. Coalition models for ‘manufacturer and recycler’ indicated the dominating role of manufacturers over the recyclers, and waste management is highly influenced by producer responsibility. But, the take-back policy enables recyclers’ dominance role in the management and yields maximum benefit to both recyclers and consumers. The polluter pays principle has been implemented in formulating policies to key stakeholders, ‘manufacturers’ as well as ‘consumers’, of battery products by the introduction of penalties to encourage their willingness to join the Environment, Health and Safety program. Results indicated that the policies of the framework have the potential to be implemented within a marginal rise in battery price by 12% to 14.3% in the range of recycling cost per tonne of US$2000 to US$5000. The policy of the stakeholders’ framework presented in the study could be an important aid to achieve high collection and recycling rates of spent portable batteries.

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