Medication waste is a concern for today's society, from both environmental and public health
perspectives. This study aims to contribute to the issue by presenting a mixed-methods …

Most households and healthcare facilities usually dispose of contaminated, unused, or
expired (CUE) medicines with municipal wastes, the disposal of which usually amounts to …

A wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) method is presented to estimate analgesic
consumption and assess the burden of treated pain in Australian communities. Wastewater …

Background Unused medicines can be stored by many people at their places of residence
and houses for later use. This study evaluated knowledge, and attitudes regarding unused …

Background Self-medication in students, as educated people, is one of the most important
health issues. It is known that inappropriate self-medication is harmful for individuals as it …

COVID-19 caused an increase in the demand for medications, which led to an increase in
pharmaceutical waste and there is no doubt that this contributes to environmental pollution …

Background Poor waste management of unused or expired medications jeopardizes
healthcare staff, employees who oversee medical waste, patients and their families, the …

Background Most households worldwide keep medicines on hand for various reasons,
including emergency use, treatment of acute and chronic diseases, and anticipated future …

Household pharmaceutical waste (HPW) contains several antibiotics and hormones,
contaminating the environment, wildlife and human beings. Existing literature tends to …

Brazil adopted a national medicines reverse logistic system (MRLS) in 2020 to properly
discharge medicines for human use. Parallel to this, there are Brazilian municipal MRLSs …