Reasons why medicines are returned to Swedish pharmacies unused

Ekedahl, Anders

doi:10.1007/s11096-006-9055-1

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“…[6] If unused post expiry date medicines may further increase the threat to the environment like expired tetracyclines can cause renal tubular damage. [7] Storing of unused and expired medicines at households results from excessive prescribing by doctors [8] or poor patients' adherence to prescribed medicines. [9] A survey conducted in the UK revealed unhealthy practices of 400 households where they disposed unused and expired pharmaceuticals either as household waste or via the sink or toilet.…”

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Knowledge and awareness of disposal of unused and expired medications among medical undergraduates of A Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital at B G Nagar: A cross-sectional observational study

Shivaraju¹,

Gangadhar²

2017

Natl J Physiol Pharm Pharmacol

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Background: Majority of the consumers remain unaware about the disposal of unused or expired medicines. The misuse and improper disposal of medications are a major safety and environmental concern, and therefore the proper disposal of these medications is critically important. Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study was to know the behavior of individual's disposal practices of unused and expired medicines among the medical undergraduate in B G Nagar. Materials and Methods:This was a descriptive, cross-sectional questionnaire based study done on 2 nd year medical students of Adichunchanagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, B G Nagar. Returned questionnaires were double-checked for accuracy. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) and Microsoft excel was used for statistical analysis. Results: Total of 128 valid questionnaires were returned with 38.28% male and 61.72% female student participation. About half of the respondents (50%) stored more than 5 medicines followed by 46.88% stored 1-5 medications at home. Majority of them disposed unused/expired drugs in municipality garbage. Majority of respondents held government responsible for creation of awareness for proper medicine disposal. 71.43% felt that drug leftover at home was in tablet form. 74.22% of them were aware of the environmental damage due to unscientific way of drug disposal methods. Conclusion: The present study demonstrated that the awareness of proper and safe drug disposal among the medical students is quite fair. To make it more effective, the concerned authorities need to implement educational programs regularly.

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Knowledge and awareness of disposal of unused and expired medications among medical undergraduates of A Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital at B G Nagar: A cross-sectional observational study

Shivaraju¹,

Gangadhar²

2017

Natl J Physiol Pharm Pharmacol

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“…Several studies have identified reasons why drugs remained unused [6][7][8][9]. But Spanish data on the reasons why drugs remain unused are not available.…”

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Returned medicines in community pharmacies of Barcelona, Spain

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“…Interestingly, the use of prescribed medicines is suitable to treat the diseases, however, if not taken appropriately, then it will cause harm instead of therapeutic effects (Swaroop and Varun, 2011;Kona et al, 2014). Despite of the benefits, previous evidences described the adverse reactions of medicines which were very common if a consumer not checked the date of expiry or buy the short or expired date products (Ekedahl, 2006). Interestingly, after these findings the respondent's preferences of product with respect to observation of expiry were also taken.…”

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Assessment of Knowledge and Practice on Consumption of Expired Pharmaceuticals: A Cross-Sectional Study at Karachi, Pakistan

Rafiq¹,

Azmi²,

Saify³

et al. 2015

J App Pharm Sci

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. Self-administered study instrument was used which consisted of total 11 variables regarding the assessment of participants' perspective on product expiry and its usage was distributed to 120 participants. Data were analyzed in SPSS version16.0. Primarily descriptive nature was used while frequency percentages of respondents were computed for categorical variables. Mean ± SD were computed for assessment of knowledge scores. Overall response rate was 83.33% in which 74 male and 26 females filled the study instrument. Average scores of respondents' awareness regarding expiry of pharmaceutical products was 4.62 ± 0.75. The qualification of respondents includes the graduates' count (64.9% male and 65.4% females) while 16.2% male and 23.1% female were postgraduate. Response distribution of respondents showed that 93.2% male and 92.3% female were aware about the product expiry concept. Similarly, 87.8% male and 96.2% female were in favor for their non-utilization, as 89.2% male and 96.2% female reported its severe harmful effects. Overall, 87.8% male and 76.9% female were interested to discard such products. Interestingly, 82.4% male, 73.1% female were in full opinion to check the product expiry date before its purchase whereas, 78.4% male and 92.3% female have their opinion to purchase long expiry products. Box plot regarding products preference and total aggregated knowledge scores showed consistency. Results concluded that the knowledge, responses and practices of participants were in favor for the non-utilization of expired pharmaceuticals.

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Reasons why medicines are returned to Swedish pharmacies unused

Cited by 52 publications

References 7 publications

Knowledge and awareness of disposal of unused and expired medications among medical undergraduates of A Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital at B G Nagar: A cross-sectional observational study

Knowledge and awareness of disposal of unused and expired medications among medical undergraduates of A Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital at B G Nagar: A cross-sectional observational study

Returned medicines in community pharmacies of Barcelona, Spain

Assessment of Knowledge and Practice on Consumption of Expired Pharmaceuticals: A Cross-Sectional Study at Karachi, Pakistan

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