[Pharmwaste] Take-back location search engines

Sat Sep 2 17:59:31 EDT 2017

Thanks all - this link is the California Product Stewardship Council's NOT the State of California's although we try to add sites for the entire state we are a 501c3 not a state agency. - www.dontrushtoflush.org<http://www.dontrushtoflush.org> .

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From: Pharmwaste [mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Margaret Shield
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 3:01 PM
To: 'Ed Gottlieb' <EGottlieb at cityofithaca.org>; pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: Re: [Pharmwaste] Take-back location search engines

I think your list of websites is very comprehensive Ed, but unfortunately none of the existing national websites is a fully comprehensive and accurate database of medicine take-back locations, which are still largely operated at the local level by many different types of agencies and entities.

Many on this listserv are probably aware that there's an important caveat about the DEA's authorized collector database. It provides a list of pharmacies, hospitals and other DEA registrants that been approved as authorized collectors for controlled substances and other medicines, however, those sites may or may not have an active drop box program.  Whenever I've looked in to details on the DEA's list, I've found pharmacy locations that are not currently operating a medicine take-back program. Either they haven't started their program yet, or they have discontinued the program. Therefore, I don't recommend the DEA database as a good search engine for the public.  It is a useful tool for verifying that a collector is DEA authorized.

The www.TakeBackYourMeds.org<http://www.TakeBackYourMeds.org> website is primarily for Washington state, with just a few locations listed in other NW state (not a comprehensive list). It is being actively maintained and updated by the WA Poison Center. Take Back Your Meds has the most comprehensive listing of medicine drop-off sites in WA state that I am aware of. However, there are probably some medicine take-back locations in WA that choose not to be promoted through this website for various reasons, primarily that they cannot handle any larger volumes of medicines than what they're already receiving.

For Oregon, there are at least two organizations maintaining lists of medicine take-back locations:

  *   the Oregon Coalition for Responsible Use of Meds (coordinated by Lines for Life) has this map of locations: https://orcrm.oregonpainguidance.org/rx-disposal/rx-disposal-map/
  *   the OR Association of Clean Water Agencies maintains a list that is updated several times a year, see: http://www.oracwa.org/documents/Unwanteddrugdropoffsites.pdf

Another multi-state online resource to add to the list is www.MED-Project.org/locations<http://www.MED-Project.org/locations>.
This is the website maintained by MED-Project, LLC which is the pharmaceutical stewardship organization representing drug manufacturers who are complying with county-level ordinances in 8 counties in CA and 4 counties in WA, with additional counties in these states and others working to enact similar legislation.  As these programs are launched under the local ordinances, the secure medicine drop-off locations are listed by county on MED-Projects website.  Locations where prepaid return mailers are distributed are also listed.
For those not familiar with these local pharmaceutical stewardship policies, here's an article from the Everett WA Herald on the launch of the 2nd of these county programs in WA state.  http://www.heraldnet.com/news/sites-to-drop-off-medications-set-to-open-in-countywide-program/
And I also have some information about pharmaceutical stewardship policies on my website at: https://www.cehstrategies.com/safer-meds

>From my past experience with the Take Back Your Meds website, a very labor intensive component of this work is keeping the information about each medicine collection location accurate and up-to-date. Whomever is managing the drop-off site database has to be regularly in contact with those locations about details that may change such as accessible hours and types of medicines accepted. It's a lot of person-to-person outreach.  A national "search engine" to pull data from all these state and local sources will only be as accurate as the local data. Dedicated resources will be needed to help with those local cataloguing efforts.

Margaret Shield, PhD
Community Environmental Health Strategies, LLC
Smart Science & Policy for Our Health and Environment
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From: Pharmwaste [mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Ed Gottlieb
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 11:52 AM
To: pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us<mailto:pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us>
Subject: [Pharmwaste] Take-back location search engines

Do you happen to know which of the national search engines below:

     *   Are the most inclusive?
     *   Most up-to-date?
     *   Have sites not included in other engines?

The DEA collector site should have every non-law enforcement location that accepts controlled substances.

The National Community Pharmacists Association search engine includes (at least some) pharmacies that don't accept controlled substances.

Do you know of any additional search engines?

Can you estimate the practicality (technical, permissions, and cost) of creating a search engine that would include enough of these data bases that all sites would be included?

Thanks!

Ed

Take-Back Location Search Engines

NATIONAL:

DEA (all authorized collectors; does not include law enforcement locations)
https://apps.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/pubdispsearch/spring/main?execution=e1s1

DEA (take-back day)
https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drug_disposal/takeback/index.html

National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
https://nabp.pharmacy/initiatives/awarxe/drug-disposal-locator/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&address=ithaca%2C+ny&distance=100

The National Community Pharmacists Association (independent pharmacies only)
http://disposemymeds.org/medicine-disposal-locator/

National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators (NADDI)
http://rxdrugdropbox.org/map-search/

Earth911
http://earth911.com/recycling-guide/how-to-recycle-unwanted-or-expired-medications/

CVS (includes non-CVS locations)
http://www.cvs.com/content/safer-communities-locate

Walgreens (only Walgreen locations)
https://walgreens.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=53cf1b54abf34c4bacdec863e5c56391
https://walgreens.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=53cf1b54abf34c4bacdec863e5c56391

MedReturn (only sites w/their brand of boxes)
http://www.medreturn.com/medreturn-units/medreturn-locations/

STATE AND REGIONAL SEARCH ENGINES (very incomplete)

Product Stewardship Institute (links to all states)
https://productstewardship.site-ym.com/page/What_To_Do_With_Meds

Take Back Your Meds (N.W. US; probably not being updated)
http://www.takebackyourmeds.org/what-you-can-do/locations/temporary-drop-off-locations/#locations

California
https://dontrushtoflush.org/locations/

Colorado
https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/medication-take-back-locations-map

Connecticut
https://www.citizenscampaign.org/campaigns/pharmaceutical-disposal/connecticut-locations.asp

Indiana
https://www.in.gov/bitterpill/safe_storage.html

Maine
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?msa=0&mid=1M53ocVTgbLWMlwGsWOTasQOWTns&ll=45.079599952111494%2C-69.39676850000001&z=7

Minnesota
https://doseofreality.mn.gov/drug-takeback/find-a-take-back-location.asp

Nebraska
http://www.nebraskameds.org/

New York
http://www.dec.ny.gov/gmk/index.html?url=http://www.dec.ny.gov/maps/gmnysmeddropbox2.kmz

Pennsylvania
https://apps.ddap.pa.gov/GetHelpNow/PillDrop.aspx

Tennessee
http://tdeconline.tn.gov/rxtakeback/

Wisconsin:
http://doseofrealitywi.gov/drug-takeback/find-a-take-back-location/

Ed Gottlieb
Chair, Coalition for Safe Medication Disposal
Board Member, New York Product Stewardship Council
Industrial Pretreatment Coordinator
Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility
525 3rd Street
Ithaca, NY  14850
(607) 273-8381
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