by Margaret | Apr 24, 2019 | News, Pharmaceutical Stewardship, Safer Products & Practices
My latest dive into assessing whether medicine disposal products provide a safe, effective, and environmentally sound way to dispose of pharmaceuticals is now out in report form. Medicine Disposal Products: an overview of products & performance questions examines...
by Margaret | Jun 13, 2018 | Circular Economy, News, Pharmaceutical Stewardship
Thanks to NACo for helping share the news about successful pharmaceutical stewardship laws in Washington State. NACo County News published my article explaining how local policies served as innovative models and drove the adoption of WA’s statewide law. ...
by Margaret | May 14, 2018 | News, Pharmaceutical Stewardship
In just 4 hours on Saturday April 28th, people across the U.S. returned almost 1 million pounds of leftover and expired medicines for safe disposal. The 15th National DEA Drug Take-Back Day netted 949,046 pounds of drugs or 475.5 tons! Complete results of the...
by Margaret | Mar 22, 2018 | News, Pharmaceutical Stewardship
Proponents of pharmaceutical stewardship in Washington State are celebrating a new law to help reduce medicine misuse, poisonings, overdoses, and that will also help reduce pharmaceutical pollution – the WA Secure Drug Take-Back Act. This pharmaceutical...
by Margaret | Nov 16, 2017 | Circular Economy, News, Pharmaceutical Stewardship
When counties in California and Washington state, like Alameda and King, began enacting pharmaceutical stewardship policies several years ago it was out of the compelling need to provide more medicine take-back services to their residents. Now in 2017, the robust and...
by Margaret | Mar 5, 2017 | News, Pharmaceutical Stewardship
The Washington State Legislature has an opportunity to act on a public safety bill that helps address the epidemic of opioid and medicine abuse and overdose deaths in our communities by creating a statewide medicine take-back program. The WA Secure Drug Take-back...
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