Attitude and practice of pharmacists towards drug take back programme

Lagishetty Radhakrishna, Prabhusaran Nagarajan, Lagishetty Ramesh, Thota Nagaraju

Abstract


The aim of the study was to evaluate the opinion and practice of pharmacists towards the drug take back programme of unwanted/ leftout medicines. A total of selected 40 pharmacies/ pharmacists completed the survey about drug take back programme and its practice. It was a questionnaire survey based study. Most of the participants were ready to encourage drug take back programmes in India, but only about 25% of the pharmacies were ready to repay the amount for drugs written. The accepted duration of time for returning the drugs to the pharmacy was varied and 59.9% were ready to take the drugs back within one month of drugs dispensed from the pharmacy. The study indicates that there is a major role of pharmacists in educating safe disposal methods and role of pharmacies/ pharmacists towards implementation of drug take back programme. Hence regulations on safe disposal of unwanted medicines are required and an organized programmes/ methods of collecting unwanted or leftout medicines need to be introduced.

Keywords


Unwanted medicines; drug take back programme; safe disposal practice; pharmacists; pharmacies

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