[Pharmwaste] mail order prescription waste

gressitt at uninets.net gressitt at uninets.net
Mon Jan 29 15:35:31 EST 2007


Just to add to this thread a bit more. In the hospice industry, at least
some of the hospice pharmacies are already getting returns after their
patient has died. And one can imagine the possible percentage of
controlled drugs at the end of life?
Stevan Gressitt, M.D.


> Why thank you all for this string.  I don't know why I didn't think of
> it before.  I am going to box up my left-overs and mail them back to the
> pharm company.  what if we all just add that to our fact sheets for
> awhile....
>
> oh, drat, I suppose they'll just flush them...what if it was like a big
> ol' moving box full..maybe they'd have to do something more with it...
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us
> [mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Matthew
> Mireles
> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 6:36 PM
> To: 'Michele Berger'; pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us
> Subject: RE: [Pharmwaste] mail order prescription waste
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> 	What a brilliant idea!  Unfortunately, not everybody understands
> or believe in stewardship or the precautionary principle.
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> 	From: pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us
> [mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Michele
> Berger
> 	Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 8:20 AM
> 	To: pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us
> 	Subject: [Pharmwaste] mail order prescription waste
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> 	Hi ya'll,
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> 	Why can't we lobby the insurance companies to take care of
> (destroy) the waste drugs?  They are the ones with the formularies and
> their preffered drug lists that cause all this drug waste to begin with.
> The patient jumps through all their hoops, tries all their ineffectual
> drugs that they want to pay for and in the end the patient has a
> cupboard of unused drugs.  Let the insurance companies provide a return
> mail voucher and let them be responsible for destroying the drugs! Let
> them take responsibility for their ideas of "affordable and effectual
> drug regimens."  And it just doesn't have to be mail order drug
> companies either this goes for everyone Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare
> Part D, Private Pays everyone. They can send them to the drug companies
> that pay them and the originators can destroy their own product.  You
> can't tell me that these drug companies don't have incinerators for
> their waste.
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> 	Michele Berger
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> 	Mediserv Pharmacy
>
> 	Sarasota, Fl.
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