Scalare102079 Posted March 29, 2009 Report Share Posted March 29, 2009 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/articl...mDu9RQD975A5LO0 finally conducting some studies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btuck Posted March 29, 2009 Report Share Posted March 29, 2009 I don't understand the problem, so now we have low cholesterol, normal blood pressure, allergy free fish that are free of bipolar disorder and depression. Sounds like a good life. Maybe I should live where the fish are living. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scalare102079 Posted March 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2009 I don't understand the problem, so now we have low cholesterol, normal blood pressure, allergy free fish that are free of bipolar disorder and depression. Sounds like a good life. Maybe I should live where the fish are living. that is a very valid point... I think I am going fishing later for dinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plantguy Posted March 29, 2009 Report Share Posted March 29, 2009 Yeah, its sad that most hospitals way of dealing with expired meds is to flush them. Its amazing to me that the water company requires back-flow preventers for irrgation systems, to ensure that some tiny amount of dirt and fertilizer doee not enter the lines, but dumping hundreds of pounds of drugs down the drain on a daily basis is considered ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldsalt Posted March 29, 2009 Report Share Posted March 29, 2009 They found trace concentrations of seven drugs and two soap scent chemicals in fish at all five of the urban river sites. The good news is that the fish smell ever so pleasant. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scalare102079 Posted March 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2009 The good news is that the fish smell ever so pleasant. John Yeah, now it is the water that stinks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btuck Posted March 29, 2009 Report Share Posted March 29, 2009 The good news is that the fish smell ever so pleasant. John Now after a day of fishing you no longer have to worry about getting the fishy smell of your hands....what a world we live in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJGreene Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 Yeah, its sad that most hospitals way of dealing with expired meds is to flush them. For one, it doesn't say that this was the method used by hospitals to dispose of expired medications. The artical doesn't even say the pharmaceuticals are coming from hospitals. Much of the contamination comes from the unmetabolized residues of pharmaceuticals that people have taken and excreted; unused medications dumped down the drain also contribute to the problem. Working in the pharmacuetical field, I would find it very unlikely that a hospital would flush expired meds. Most pharma companies actually offer credits back to hospitals and pharmacies for returning expired meds back to the company. To prevent just this type of thing from happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plantguy Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 Working in the pharmacuetical field, I would find it very unlikely that a hospital would flush expired meds. Most pharma companies actually offer credits back to hospitals and pharmacies for returning expired meds back to the company. To prevent just this type of thing from happening. I know this, because I have fought with clarian about it, its their company policy. I berated a woman for doing it while I was there servicing a tank, and she brought me their SOP for disposing of expired medicine, which instructs them to remove packaging, and flush the pills. They used to throw them away, but got into a legal issue when some dumpster diver OD'd on meds he got from a dumpster. According to my wife, who has been in the medical field for about 15 years, every single doctors office, and hospital she has worked for has had the same policy. Scary eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJGreene Posted March 30, 2009 Report Share Posted March 30, 2009 Scary eh? It is. Like I said, I am surprised a hospital would dump expired meds, because most drug companies will give them a credit back for returning the expired meds. For doctors offices, my guess is that they are expired samples being discarded. The doctors office I used to work at, expired samples were put in the sharps container so they would be incenerated. I am surprised that more durg companies don't do more with the doctors offices to get the expired samples back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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