Download or read book Legal Issues Relating to the Disposal of Dispensed Controlled Substances written by Brian T. Yeh and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Drug Waste and Disposal written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pharmaceutical Waste written by David Muriithi Nyagah and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharmaceutical products are inevitable for human health. Owing to the growing need for pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical companies introduce drugs annually into the market in addition to the large collection of existing pharmaceutical products. Households, farms, health facilities and pharmaceutical industries release pharmaceutical waste into the environment at low concentrations through routine pharmaceutical use, damage and expiry. The effects of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) on non-target species in the environment are not known. Unwanted pharmaceuticals should be safely disposed at a reduced financial cost to mitigate public and environment health risk. Over the years, pharmaceuticals such as diclofenac and ibuprofen in trace amounts have been detected in public water systems, ground and surface water. Lack of general knowledge of how to dispose of unused pharmaceuticals leads to improper disposal resulting in accidental toxicity, rising healthcare costs, landfills pilfering / scavenging, water supply pollution, anti-microbial resistance and death. To mitigate such effects, pharmacists should raise public awareness about safe disposal practices. This review aims to examine the sources of pharmaceutical waste, disposal costs, secure disposal methods, the effects of inappropriate disposal and the role of pharmacists in the disposal. The information on the stated objectives was gathered from available sources through a comprehensive literature review. Many countries contain tons of pharmaceutical waste that are expensive to destroy. Because of improper disposal, pharmaceutical waste has been found at trace amounts in drinking and surface water. A practical, environmentally sustainable approach to pharmaceutical waste management, with policies and guidelines, as well as public awareness campaigns, are necessary to address the problem of safe waste disposal. The national drug regulatory bodies should conduct environmental risk assessment resulting from disposal of unwanted pharmaceuticals. Pharmacists should facilitate extensive training on sustainable drug use and proper pharmaceutical waste disposal at all levels to reduce the risks associated with improper disposal. Reduction of pharmaceutical waste generation at each step of a drugs lifecycle, implementing take-back options, collection at approved sites and modern technology to treat wastewater are highly recommended to reduce effects of unwanted pharmaceuticals on human health and environment.

Download or read book Safe Management of Wastes from Health care Activities written by Yves Chartier and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2014 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second edition of the WHO handbook on the safe, sustainable and affordable management of health-care waste--commonly known as "the Blue Book". The original Blue Book was a comprehensive publication used widely in health-care centers and government agencies to assist in the adoption of national guidance. It also provided support to committed medical directors and managers to make improvements and presented practical information on waste-management techniques for medical staff and waste workers. It has been more than ten years since the first edition of the Blue Book. During the intervening period, the requirements on generators of health-care wastes have evolved and new methods have become available. Consequently, WHO recognized that it was an appropriate time to update the original text. The purpose of the second edition is to expand and update the practical information in the original Blue Book. The new Blue Book is designed to continue to be a source of impartial health-care information and guidance on safe waste-management practices. The editors' intention has been to keep the best of the original publication and supplement it with the latest relevant information. The audience for the Blue Book has expanded. Initially, the publication was intended for those directly involved in the creation and handling of health-care wastes: medical staff, health-care facility directors, ancillary health workers, infection-control officers and waste workers. This is no longer the situation. A wider range of people and organizations now have an active interest in the safe management of health-care wastes: regulators, policy-makers, development organizations, voluntary groups, environmental bodies, environmental health practitioners, advisers, researchers and students. They should also find the new Blue Book of benefit to their activities. Chapters 2 and 3 explain the various types of waste produced from health-care facilities, their typical characteristics and the hazards these wastes pose to patients, staff and the general environment. Chapters 4 and 5 introduce the guiding regulatory principles for developing local or national approaches to tackling health-care waste management and transposing these into practical plans for regions and individual health-care facilities. Specific methods and technologies are described for waste minimization, segregation and treatment of health-care wastes in Chapters 6, 7 and 8. These chapters introduce the basic features of each technology and the operational and environmental characteristics required to be achieved, followed by information on the potential advantages and disadvantages of each system. To reflect concerns about the difficulties of handling health-care wastewaters, Chapter 9 is an expanded chapter with new guidance on the various sources of wastewater and wastewater treatment options for places not connected to central sewerage systems. Further chapters address issues on economics (Chapter 10), occupational safety (Chapter 11), hygiene and infection control (Chapter 12), and staff training and public awareness (Chapter 13). A wider range of information has been incorporated into this edition of the Blue Book, with the addition of two new chapters on health-care waste management in emergencies (Chapter 14) and an overview of the emerging issues of pandemics, drug-resistant pathogens, climate change and technology advances in medical techniques that will have to be accommodated by health-care waste systems in the future (Chapter 15).

Download or read book Drug Waste and Disposal written by United States Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug waste and disposal: when prescriptions become poison : hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, Washington, DC, June 30, 2010.

Download or read book Drug Waste and Disposal written by United States Senate and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug waste and disposal: when prescriptions become poison: hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, Washington, DC, June 30, 2010.

Download or read book Household Pharmaceutical Waste Disposal written by Maggie Conley and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Drug Waste and Disposal written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Drug Enforcement Administration s Clandestine Drug Laboratory Cleanup Program written by Raymond J. Beaudet and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Each year large quantities of illegal drugs are manufactured in clandestine drug labs (CDL). Due to the chemicals used to make the drugs and the wastes generated during the ¿cooking,¿ CDL present significant safety and health risks to law enforcement and to the public. The DEA¿s CDL Cleanup Program focuses on the removal and disposal of the chemicals, contaminated apparatus, and equipment that can be used to manufacture illegal drugs. This report: (1) determined whether the DEA ensures that CDL cleanups performed by its vendors comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and contract require.; and (2) evaluated the DEA¿s overall effectiveness in administering and managing the CDL Cleanup Program funding. Charts and tables.

Download or read book Medical Waste Management and Disposal written by and published by William Andrew Inc.. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the current status of US medical waste management and disposal practices, ranging from handling the waste as nonhazardous municipal solid waste to strict segregation, packaging, labeling, and tracking. Treatment techniques include steam sterilization, incineration, recycling and reuse methods. Also covers EPA studies characterizing types, numbers and sizes of waste generators and wastes generated.

Download or read book ANA s Principles of Environmental Health for Nursing Practice with Implementation Strategies written by American Nurses Association and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Focus on Pharmaceutical Waste written by Washington (State). Department of Ecology and published by . This book was released on 2003* with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guidelines for the Safe Handling and Disposal of Chemicals Used in the Illlicit Manufacture of Drugs written by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Laboratory and Scientific Section and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Guidelines for the Safe Disposal of Chemicals used in the illicit manufacture of Drugs (STNAR/36) was published in 2006. At the 33rd meeting of the Heads of Law Enforcement Agencies (HONLEA) Asia and Pacific, in Bali, Indonesia in 2010, Member States noted the significant increase in precursor chemicals discovered regionally and expressed concern about the difficulties encountered in storing and disposing of precursor chemicals in a safe and environmentally friendly manner. The present Guidelines reflect the discussions of the experts at the Expert Group Meeting on Safe and Environmentally-Responsible Disposal of Chemicals Used in the Illicit Manufacture of Drugs held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 20 to 22 September 2010, and the elaboration of practical methods for the safe handling and disposal of seized chemicals in situations where a waste management infrastructure may not be available.

Download or read book Green and Sustainable Pharmacy written by Klaus Kümmerer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within recent years pharmaceuticals have come into focus as contaminants of the environment (see for example Kümmerer, K. editor: Pharmaceuticals in the Environment). At the same time the issue of sustainable chemistry gained momentum. Bringing both together would result in sustainable pharmacy. Sustainable pharmacy is a totally new issue and approach. It addresses environmental, economical and social aspects of pharmacy. In the present stage the focus will be on environmental issues along the whole lifecycle of a pharmaceutical entity. That is dealing with resources and energy input but also with waste issues for example during the synthesis and production of an active pharmaceutical ingredient. Furthermore, it would also look on the compounds themselves and will aim to improve the degradability of the compounds after their use in the environment to reduce the environmental risk caused by pharmaceuticals in the environment. Another issue is the people using pharmaceuticals such as pharmacists, medical doctors and patients. How can they contribute to more efficient use of pharmaceuticals with less environmental burden and less risk for drinking water. The book "Sustainable Pharmacy" will address all these issues and will be the first one dealing with this important topic.

Download or read book Drugs and the Environment written by National Exposure National Exposure Research Laboratory and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report represents the first-ever comprehensive examination of the broad scope of issues surrounding the topic of disposal of unwanted, unneeded, leftover medications from consumer use and the countless ways in which the introduction of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to the environment can be reduced. The report presents a synthesis of thought resulting from the body of work performed on this topic over the last decade by the US Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development (ORD) at the National Exposure Research Laboratory in Las Vegas, Nevada. After distilling and synthesizing the published literature, it becomes clear that a holistic solution to the problem of consumer drug disposal will require the coordinated efforts of numerous stakeholders, agencies, and disciplines. A truly sustainable solution has the potential to not just reduce the entry of APIs to the environment via direct disposal of drugs to sewers (by flushing down drains) and landfills (by discarding in trash). More significant outcomes are possible from a holistic, sustainable approach that targets the many factors that contribute to the incidence of leftover drugs. Instead of limiting the focus to mechanisms for disposing of leftover drugs, a sustainable approach could also reduce: environmental loadings of APIs as a result of actions that also minimize their excretion; the incidence of drug diversion and abuse; the incidence of morbidity and mortality resulting from unintended poisonings (for humans, companion animals, and wildlife); and healthcare costs. Perhaps most importantly, a system that minimizes drug wastage may lead to improved therapeutic outcomes and general health, as well as to improvements in other aspects of the system of healthcare such as the way in which drug donations are handled. It is clear that the most practical and effective potential solutions to the related issues of leftover medications and pharmaceutical residues in the environment reside with the prescribing and dispensing communities and allied industries such as manufacturers and insurers. Countless improvements to these practices could be made, resulting in lower drug usage, fewer leftovers, improved therapeutic outcomes, and lower healthcare costs. This is where efforts need to be focused in changing the behaviors and practices of those involved with medical care. While patient expectations play a large role as well (such as with non-compliance to medication regimens, or with misguided expectations that a successful visit to a doctor is measured in part by whether a prescription is obtained), these expectations need to be changed by the medical care community. The responsibility of manufacturers not only can target issues such as patient non-compliance and excessive or unnecessary drug usage, but it can extend beyond the point of drug usage to deal with leftover medications. A fully integrated, sustainable approach to optimal drug use and generation and disposition of wastes can only be achieved by the close and integrated collaboration of healthcare professionals, environmental scientists, regulators, and numerous other organizations and stakeholders.

Download or read book Drug Waste and Disposal written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Regulation of Pharmaceutical Disposal written by David L. Beaujon and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memorandum summarizes federal and Colorado regulations concerning pharmaceutical waste disposal and describes a voluntary pharmaceutical collection program in Colorado. It also summarizes recent Illinois legislation concerning the collection of pharmaceutical waste.