[Pharmwaste] Correction: 8 States not participating

[Ed Gottlieb]

Happy to have been corrected about the list of states that are not participating in the DEA authorized receiver program.  I left out MO and NH.  The list of states is:  AK, CT, HI, MN, MO, MS, NH, & NY
My searches using the DEA on-line locator has turned up a pharmacy in two of these states.  These seem to be errors.

Ed Gottlieb
Chair, Coalition for Safe Medication Disposal
Industrial Pretreatment Coordinator
Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility
525 3rd Street
Ithaca, NY  14850
(607) 273-8381
fax: (607) 273-8433
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From: Ed Gottlieb
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 1:58 PM
To: pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: RE: [Pharmwaste] NYTimes story says only 1% of pharmacies have registered to receive

Alan Schwartz, the NY Times reporter, says he derived the 1% number from information
provided by the DEA and pharmacy trade organizations.

Please note, the story reports that eight states are not participating.  I believe now there are now only six:
AK, CT, HI, MN, MS, & NY

Great that he mentioned EPR efforts in his story.

Ed Gottlieb
Chair, Coalition for Safe Medication Disposal
Industrial Pretreatment Coordinator
Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility
525 3rd Street
Ithaca, NY  14850
(607) 273-8381
fax: (607) 273-8433
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From: pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us [pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] on behalf of Ed Gottlieb [EGottlieb at cityofithaca.org]
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 10:34 AM
To: pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: [Pharmwaste] NYTimes story says only 1% of pharmacies have registered to receive

NYTimes story says only 1% participation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/us/dea-effort-to-curb-painkiller-abuse-falls-short-at-pharmacies.html?ref=health&_r=1

Anyone know where that number came from?

Ed Gottlieb
Chair, Coalition for Safe Medication Disposal
Industrial Pretreatment Coordinator
Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility
525 3rd Street
Ithaca, NY  14850
(607) 273-8381
fax: (607) 273-8433
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