[Pharmwaste] mail order prescription waste

[Charlotte A. Smith]

Please remember it is illegal for a provider pharmacy to accept
controlled substances back from a patient.  


Charlotte A. Smith, R. Ph., M.S., HEM
President
PharmEcology Associates, LLC
200 S. Executive Drive, Suite 101
Brookfield, WI 53005
262-814-2635
Fax: 414-479-9941
csmith at pharmecology.com
www.pharmecology.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us
[mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of
gressitt at uninets.net
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 2:36 PM
To: Volkman, Jennifer
Cc: pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: RE: [Pharmwaste] mail order prescription waste

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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>
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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
>
> 	Mediserv Pharmacy
>
> 	Sarasota, Fl.
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