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Development and implementation of SafeMedWaste, a chemical denaturant for non-hazardous disposal of controlled medications
Substance use disorders are a significant public health issue. Options to dispose of controlled medications are limited, increasing the risk of diversion. Providing an alternative for disposal, a chemical denaturant, SafeMedWaste, was designed to destroy controlled substances irreversibly and safely...
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author | Leishman, Emma Wang, Yizhong Channu, Reddy Boyst, Evan Hartmann, Marshall Stas, Justin |
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description | Substance use disorders are a significant public health issue. Options to dispose of controlled medications are limited, increasing the risk of diversion. Providing an alternative for disposal, a chemical denaturant, SafeMedWaste, was designed to destroy controlled substances irreversibly and safely be placed in non-hazardous landfills. Via HPLC–MS, four formulations of SafeMedWaste were tested with 34 different liquid controlled medications from DEA schedules I–V. Beta testing assessed the efficacy of SafeMedWaste in a clinical setting and on waste generated in a manufacturing setting. Furthermore, a formulation of SafeMedWaste was tested on solid controlled medications. All 34 of the liquid medications tested (e.g., amphetamine, diazepam, fentanyl, ketamine) were fully destroyed in SafeMedWaste within 2–24 h. Analysis of a beta test sample of SafeMedWaste containing fentanyl, midazolam, and morphine waste collected in a hospital showed full denaturation of these drugs in 24 h. Variants of SafeMedWaste were optimized to denature six different controlled substance waste samples from a manufacturing facility. In contrast to side-by-side studies with a charcoal disposal system using the same drugs, SafeMedWaste fully inactivated and destroyed the controlled substances in the waste streams. Another formulation of SafeMedWaste was tested on solid medications, which were fully denatured in 48–72 h. In conclusion, SafeMedWaste irreversibly denatures controlled medications that present a problem in our society. |
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spelling | pubmed-78065952021-01-14 Development and implementation of SafeMedWaste, a chemical denaturant for non-hazardous disposal of controlled medications Leishman, Emma Wang, Yizhong Channu, Reddy Boyst, Evan Hartmann, Marshall Stas, Justin Sci Rep Article Substance use disorders are a significant public health issue. Options to dispose of controlled medications are limited, increasing the risk of diversion. Providing an alternative for disposal, a chemical denaturant, SafeMedWaste, was designed to destroy controlled substances irreversibly and safely be placed in non-hazardous landfills. Via HPLC–MS, four formulations of SafeMedWaste were tested with 34 different liquid controlled medications from DEA schedules I–V. Beta testing assessed the efficacy of SafeMedWaste in a clinical setting and on waste generated in a manufacturing setting. Furthermore, a formulation of SafeMedWaste was tested on solid controlled medications. All 34 of the liquid medications tested (e.g., amphetamine, diazepam, fentanyl, ketamine) were fully destroyed in SafeMedWaste within 2–24 h. Analysis of a beta test sample of SafeMedWaste containing fentanyl, midazolam, and morphine waste collected in a hospital showed full denaturation of these drugs in 24 h. Variants of SafeMedWaste were optimized to denature six different controlled substance waste samples from a manufacturing facility. In contrast to side-by-side studies with a charcoal disposal system using the same drugs, SafeMedWaste fully inactivated and destroyed the controlled substances in the waste streams. Another formulation of SafeMedWaste was tested on solid medications, which were fully denatured in 48–72 h. In conclusion, SafeMedWaste irreversibly denatures controlled medications that present a problem in our society. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-01-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7806595/ /pubmed/33441864 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80388-w Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Leishman, Emma Wang, Yizhong Channu, Reddy Boyst, Evan Hartmann, Marshall Stas, Justin Development and implementation of SafeMedWaste, a chemical denaturant for non-hazardous disposal of controlled medications |
title | Development and implementation of SafeMedWaste, a chemical denaturant for non-hazardous disposal of controlled medications |
title_full | Development and implementation of SafeMedWaste, a chemical denaturant for non-hazardous disposal of controlled medications |
title_fullStr | Development and implementation of SafeMedWaste, a chemical denaturant for non-hazardous disposal of controlled medications |
title_full_unstemmed | Development and implementation of SafeMedWaste, a chemical denaturant for non-hazardous disposal of controlled medications |
title_short | Development and implementation of SafeMedWaste, a chemical denaturant for non-hazardous disposal of controlled medications |
title_sort | development and implementation of safemedwaste, a chemical denaturant for non-hazardous disposal of controlled medications |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7806595/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33441864 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80388-w |
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