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February 04, 2010
Collection programs for unused prescription medications seen as increasing.
The AP (1/22) reports on how communities across the US are ramping "efforts to clean out America's medicine cabinets," and at least "20 states now have collection programs for unused medications, and several saw record hauls in 2009."
The AP notes that the programs were "initially motivated by concerns about flushed pharmaceuticals reaching drinking water supplies," but the "programs are also surging for another reason: prescription drug overdoses." Still, advocates "say the 90 or so take-back programs across the country are a good start but not well-funded enough to expand to a mass scale."
Posted by admin at February 4, 2010 04:49 PM