Resources

102nd General Assembly bills

• HB 119

• SB 516

Background

• State of Prescription Drug Repository Programs -NCSL review

• Feasibility of an Oral Oncology Drug Repository Program - Journal of Clinical Pathways 1/5/21

• Development and Implementation of an Oral Oncology Drug Repository Program - JCO Oncology Practice 11/13/20

• University of Minnesota startup RoundtableRx to reroute unused medications away from disposal to help those in need | University of Minnesota - 9/8/20

• Drug Repositories Aim to Solve Access Issues - Onc Live 8/18/20

• Ron DeSantis signs unused prescription drug donation bill - Flapol 6/9/20

• OSU Pilots Cancer Drug Repository Program - Pharmacy Practice News 5/26/20

• Text #FlipYourScrip to Easily Donate Unused drugs - Medscape 3/10/20

• Medscape Article:  Recycling Unused Oral Cancer Drugs Endorsed by ASCO - Medscape 2/21/20

• ASCO Position statement on drug repositories - 2/19/20

• Drug Takeback Proposal Aims To Keep Unwanted Medicine Off Illinois Streets, And Out Of The Water -  NPR Illinois  2/17/20

• Effects on Treatment Adherence of Distributing Essential Medicines at No Charge -The CLEAN Meds Randomized Clinical Trial - JAMA Intern Med 10/7/19

• Allow Docs to Recycle Chemo Pills, Already - Medscape 1/9/19

• Recycling Discarded Drugs: Improving Access to Oral Antineoplastic Drugs - 12/19/18

• States Look to Drug Donations to Improve Access to Medication - NCSL 11/7/18

• OK to Give Leftover Chemo Pills to Needy Patients in Tennessee - Medscape 11/1/18

• Medicine donation program helps many Georgians who can't afford what they need - Georgia Health News 8/7/18

• Want to cut health-care costs?  Start with the obscene amount of waste - Washington Post 12-28-17

• America’s Other Drug Problem - ProPublica 4/27/17

• Drug Recycling Programs Offer Promise but Are Slow in Coming - US News & World Report 2/19/16

• Recycling Unused Medicines to Save Money and Lives - NYT 3/20/15

• Drugs in the Environment: Do Pharmaceutical Take-Back Programs Make a Difference? - Environ Health Perspect 5/10

• Dosed Without Prescription:  Preventing Pharmaceutical Contamination of Our Nation’s Drinking Water - Natural Resources Defense Council 1/10

• Hurdles Facing Unused Prescription Drug Repositories - Scientific American 2/1/09

• Water-Quality Data for Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in US Streams, 1999-2000

• Concentrations of prioritized pharmaceuticals in effluents from 50 large wastewater treatment plants in the US and implications for risk estimation

• SIRUM - Supporting Initiatives to Redistribute Unused Medicine - national nonprofit founded by students at Stanford University to help the uninsured and underinsured and others struggling to pay their prescription costs 

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Illinois Specific

• A medication repository would help patients who can't afford prescription drugs - Chicago Tribune 4/29/19

• Plan to reuse prescription drugs stuck on final hurdles - Chicago Tribune 8/20/11

• ILGA LRU - 5/07

• Illinois Environmental Protection Agency - Pharmaceuticals

• What’s in your water?- Chicago Tribune 4/17/08

Established Programs

• Roundtable Rx | Minnesota's Medication Matchmaker

• Iowa SafeNetRx

• Wyoming Medication Donation Program

• Oklahoma Drug Recycling Program

• Georgia Donated Drug Repository Program - The Good Pill

• Wisconsin Drug Donation Program - Repository

• Remedichain - Tennessee