[Pharmwaste] [EXTERNAL] FYI: FDA Unveils Public Education Campaign on Safe Opioid Disposal

Tue Apr 23 15:47:52 EDT 2019

I sent a note to the "Stakeholder engagement staff" asking for another link. I searched around on the website a bit and didn't find it. I did find this "DCER Conversation" with the same guy pictured below that you can read here if you are interested: https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/NewsEvents/ucm464197.htm It appears that this was posted in 2015, so perhaps they've made a change on the FDA recommendations (not requirements) for proper disposal.

Scanning a few areas of the website show that FDA is still advocating for sewering of a certain list of medications, so nothing has changed other than they appear to have added more of a description as to why they favor sewering certain drugs. Given the danger of fentanyl patches and actual deaths caused, I don't see their guidance changing. They do note the existence of collection options and refer to the DEA's search engine to locate collection sites. DEA's search widget only include pharmacies, most likely because they must register with DEA, while law enforcement does not, so they don't have the info to include them on a search. We are still at 2/3 law enforcement and 1/3 pharmacies hosting collection bins here in MN, so using our own search engine is better. I would imagine that several of you have your own more comprehensive search widgets yourselves.

Sorry for the bum steer on the link, if I get a corrected link, I'll forward it to the group. It is likely that this occurs tomorrow since tomorrow's date is included in the link (?) I'm not expecting any change, but it would be good to know what they are going to do with this campaign and how widely they'll promote it.

From: Jones, Diane B., R.Ph. <Jones.Diane at mayo.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 2:09 PM
To: Volkman, Jennifer (MPCA) <jennifer.volkman at state.mn.us>; pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] [Pharmwaste] FYI: FDA Unveils Public Education Campaign on Safe Opioid Disposal

The link to register does not work- says not found.

From: Pharmwaste [mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Volkman, Jennifer (MPCA)
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 1:53 PM
To: pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us<mailto:pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Pharmwaste] FYI: FDA Unveils Public Education Campaign on Safe Opioid Disposal

I hope they get this right and recommend using collection programs. Has anyone on here been working with FDA on this?

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April 22, 2019

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FDA is excited to announce the upcoming launch of a new public education campaign to encourage safe disposal of unused opioid pain medicines. Please join us on Wednesday, April 24th at 12:00 p.m. (EDT) to hear about this important new effort and learn what you can do to reduce the chance of accidental or intentional prescription opioid misuse among your constituents, neighbors, friends, and loved ones.

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