Year: 2009
Resolution Number: 20
Action Taken: Approved as Amended
Status:
Author(s): Pino D. Colone, MD
Sponsor: Pino D. Colone, MD
On behalf of: Genesee County Delegation
Committee: B (Legislation)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS work with appropriate agencies and professional associations to develop plans to recover safe, unused, unopened, and unexpired medications.RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the AMA ask the AMA to work with appropriate agencies and professional associations to develop plans to recover safe, unused, unopened, and unexpired medications.REFERENCE COMMITTEE RATIONALE: The Committee believes that this resolution intends to meet a growing need for access to free medications as well as reducing pharmaceutical waste. However, the Committee was informed that efforts to enact this program in Michigan have been met with reservations by pharmacists that have a duty to assure the safety of drugs that are dispensed to patients. Drugs that leave the chain of custody of a pharmacist often do not meet this threshold. Therefore, in order to arrive at a workable solution to this problem, it will be important to engage other health professionals that have justifiable concerns about how such a program could be implemented.
RESOLVED: That MSMS work with appropriate agencies and professional associations to develop plans to recover safe, unused, unopened, and unexpired medications.RESOLVED: That the Michigan Delegation to the AMA ask the AMA to work with appropriate agencies and professional associations to develop plans to recover safe, unused, unopened, and unexpired medications.REFERENCE COMMITTEE RATIONALE: The Committee believes that this resolution intends to meet a growing need for access to free medications as well as reducing pharmaceutical waste. However, the Committee was informed that efforts to enact this program in Michigan have been met with reservations by pharmacists that have a duty to assure the safety of drugs that are dispensed to patients. Drugs that leave the chain of custody of a pharmacist often do not meet this threshold. Therefore, in order to arrive at a workable solution to this problem, it will be important to engage other health professionals that have justifiable concerns about how such a program could be implemented.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Reducing Medication Waste from Extended Care Facilities