Links to more information

 


The Science of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
    EPA website: Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products
    USGS study: Pharmaceuticals, Hormones and Other Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams, 1999-2000: A National Reconnaissance
    Persistence of Pharmaceutical Compounds and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in a Conventional Drinking-Water-Treatment Plant
    Individual and Mixture Effects of Selected Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products on the Marine Phytoplankton Species Dunaliella tertiolecta
    Preliminary Studies into the Effects of the Human Pharmaceutical Clofibric Acid on Sperm Parameters in Adult Fathead Minnow
    The Effects of Selected Pharmaceutical Products on Phagocytic Activity in Elliptio complanata Mussels
    Acute and Chronic Toxicity of Fluoxetine (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) in Western Mosquitofish
    Earth 911: Unwanted Medications - a Present Danger


 Green Prescribing 
    Teleosis Institute
    Stockholm County Council


Medicine Return Programs
    San Francisco Bay Area - Teleosis Institute
    St. Louis, MO
    Canada: Post Consumer Pharmaceutical Stewardship Association
    Australia: Return Unwanted Medicines


Unused Medicine Return Data
    NERC/CVS Pilot - Return Event in Maine
    Bay Area, California - Safe Medicine Disposal Day Report
    British Columbia Program (ongoing collection) - 2006 Report


Prescription Drug Abuse
    Science and Management of Addictions (SAMA) Foundation