[Pharmwaste] Household pharms (even haz waste) excluded

[TBadrick at aol.com]

Its interesting the strictness applied to drug collection as such a high  
risk of certain meds getting into the wrong hands....when in this economy at  
least in my area there is almost daily robberies of pharmacies for  
oxycontin...why exactly are we so worried about policing take back events?
 
Tom Badrick
Badrick Consulting
 
 
In a message dated 4/7/2010 9:02:55 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
ndboph at btinet.net writes:

Dear  Pharmawaste:

If we are going to make any real progress in getting these  unused drugs
collected and destroyed you all need to decide what process  should be used.
If incineration is the best, then you need to lighten up  and let us help 
the
consumer destroy them without a bunch of restrictions  on the collection,
shipping, storage, etc. of these items, or we will  simply abandon the
effort, as we have several times in the past, and the  will end up in the
sewer, or trash, again.

If we make every consumer  drive from North Dakota to an incinerator in
Illinois to deliver their  expired drugs, we will make a lot of air
pollution, or it will never  happen. You get to decide  which.


Sincerely,

Howard

Howard C. Anderson,  Jr.,R.Ph.
Executive Director
North Dakota Board of Pharmacy
1906 E.  Broadway Ave.
P.O. Box 1354
Bismarck, ND  58502-1354
Phone (701)  328-9535
Fax (701) 328-9536
Web site  www.nodakpharmacy.com
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[mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us]  On Behalf Of Gilliam,
Allen
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 9:45  AM
To: 'Tenace, Laurie'; pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject:  [Pharmwaste] Household pharms (even haz waste) excluded

How many of you  have some major heartburn over this? "The following
statement can be made  about your household/residential (only) take-back
programs'  pharmaceuticals: 'House-hold pharmaceuticals collected through
take-back  programs retains its residential hazardous waste exclusion from
collection  through final disposal even if disposal is by incineration.'"

This has  recently been coerced out of our haz waste division "experts'"
mouths and  hopefully will make octomom look childless once our State Drug
Director  gets a full push going on with all the police agencies in the
state.  See
https://ardhs.sharepointsite.net/RX for more details.

This  state's Office of the Drug Director is approaching take-back programs
from  the overdose/abuse viewpoint and seems to be outpacing the "save  the
environment" viewpoint by several laps BEGINNING with our law  enforcement
partners taking the lead.

Who'd thunk?

Allen  g
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