[Pharmwaste] Fwd: Google Alert - unused medicine disposal

[Jeff Hollar]

Regarding mailback programs:  What about the potential of theft in transit?
Mailmen, sorters, etc.  What controls in place to 100% eliminate this?  If
someone diverts one mail back pouch, will this be caught?  What if someone
opens one up and takes 5 pills from a bottle?  What if someone puts the mail
back pouch in their mailbox and it gets swiped before the mailman picks it
up?  How do the various mailback programs address these diversion issues?  

 

On a related note, I am aware of at least one mailback program that is not
permitted to take back DEA controlled substances.  Obviously DEA controls
will make it through.  What happens when this mailback program facility
receives DEA controls?  How can this even be monitored if the container
contents being shipped are not 100% examined?

 

Regarding disposal:  If these pharmaceuticals came from a non-household
entity, the RCRA waste would likely have to be segregated and destroyed in a
RCRA incinerator.  What is the typical disposal method used in mailback
programs?  WTE Incinerator, RCRA Incinerator, autoclave, landfilled?

 

I would like to learn more about the issues I raised above.  Can those of
you involved with the various mailback programs shed some light on these
questions?  

 

Warmest Regards,

 

Jeff Hollar

President

PharmWaste Technologies, Inc.

4164 NW Urbandale Dr., Ste A

Urbandale, IA 50322

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515-331-7310 (direct)

515-360-9785 (cell)

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From: Stevan Gressitt [mailto:gressitt at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 5:55 PM
To: pharmwaste; rxnews
Subject: [Pharmwaste] Fwd: Google Alert - unused medicine disposal

 

Mailback would have precluded this problem

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From: Google Alerts <googlealerts-noreply at google.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:43 PM
Subject: Google Alert - unused medicine disposal
To: gressitt at gmail.com





News

1 new result for unused medicine disposal


 


 
<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://beaconnews.suntimes.com/news/635804
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UAOJ3ZsIiQng> Accused Yorkville officer takes unpaid leave
Chicago Sun-Times
Prosecutors claim that Delaney took prescription medicine for his personal
use from the supplies turned in by residents as part of an unused medication
disposal program. He is scheduled to make his first appearance in court
today. ...
 
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Stevan Gressitt, M.D.
Faculty Associate, University of Maine Center on Aging
Academic Member, Athens Institute for Education and Research

Athens, Greece

Founding Director, International Institute for Pharmaceutical Safety
University of New England, College of Pharmacy
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