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Medication disposal system

a technology of medication disposal system and pharmaceutical surplus, which is applied in the direction of strainers, transportation and packaging, grain treatment, etc., can solve the problems of unfavorable treatment process, unfavorable treatment process, and insufficient knowledge of medical contaminants in rivers and streams

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-05-27
WAKEMAN ANN
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"The present invention relates to a medication disposal system and method that reduces the potential for environmental contamination and injury to persons disposing of drugs. The invention addresses the issue of medical contaminants in waterways and the difficulty and risk to medical personnel in disposing of drugs. The invention proposes a system and method for preparing medications for disposal by shredding, crushing, or pulverizing them and then aggregating them with a disposal medium that can be placed in a landfill or incinerated. The invention aims to provide a safer and more effective way of disposing of surplus medications."

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Disposal of surplus pharmaceuticals presents a significant problem for the health care industry.
Likewise, the sources of medical contaminants in rivers and streams are not fully known.
In some cases, a used transdermal patch may contain sufficient medication to be a danger to children and small animals and the medication can continue to be released in the sewer.
Current waste treatment processes do not remove medications from sewage and the medical chemicals can enter waterways with the treatment effluent.
In addition, the process of disposing of medications can present difficulty and risk to medical personnel.
The process of emptying vials of medicine with a hypodermic needle can be laborious and presents a risk of injury in addition to the risk of environmental contamination resulting from disposal in the sewer system.

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[0013]Medications take several forms, are delivered by a number of mechanisms and are stored in a variety of containers. Medicine may be ingested in the form of liquids, pills or capsules, a digestible gelatinous container with the medicament inside. Pills and capsules may be stored in bottles but are frequently stored in blister packs, comprising a preformed plastic blister which is typically sealed to a paperboard card. Liquid medications may be stored in bottles but some liquid medications are stored in sealed vials for delivery to the patient by injection. Other medications are dispensed with an adhesive transdermal patch. When the adhesive patch is applied to the skin, the medicament, which may be in the adhesive patch or a reservoir affixed to the patch, is absorbed through the skin. The inventor considered the wide variety of storage and delivery means for medication and concluded that environmental contamination and exposure to medication during disposal could be reduced if,...

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Medication is disposed of by rending the medication, including medicaments stored in blister packs and transdermal patches, and aggregating the riven medication with a disposal medium that is suitable for burial or incineration. Burial or incineration of the aggregated disposal medium and the riven medication reduces the likelihood of water contamination.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a division of pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 890,685 filed Aug. 6, 2007.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates to a medication disposal system and, more particularly, to a method for disposing of medication and an apparatus for preparing medications for disposal.[0003]Disposal of surplus pharmaceuticals presents a significant problem for the health care industry. For example, recent studies of water and stream bottom sediments reveal that water pollution involves a wide range of contaminants. In addition to more well-known contaminants from industrial and agricultural sources, these studies have identified a wide ranging presence of pharmaceuticals in water and stream sediments. For example, a recent report of a study of sediment from streams and rivers in Oregon identified a number of medical chemicals including: antidepressants including venlafaxine, fluoxetine, and citalopram; an...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B26F3/02B09B3/00
CPCB09B3/0075B02C19/0075Y10S241/27Y10T225/10
Inventor WAKEMAN, ANN
Owner WAKEMAN ANN
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