Prescription disposal program is unneeded
Prescription disposal program is unneeded
By: Patrick Moore
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Page A10
San Francisco’s city leaders are poised to pass an ordinance today requiring name-brand drug manufacturers to pay for collection and disposal of unused prescription medicines to curb prescription misuse and environmental impacts. Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi’s proposed “take-back program” would allow residents to take unused prescription pills to a secure site for incineration to keep people from flushing them down the toilet or to keep them from being stolen from medicine cabinets. Read more