Abstract
Perceptions and Knowledge of Storing Medications at Home in Al-Qassim Region, Saudi Arabia
Highlights
The inefficient retention or disposal of medications has raised the health, safety and environmental concerns worldwide
About half of the responders were in the age group of 18–29 years (393 (58.31%)) with a more significant number of female population than that of males (p
With the lack of guidelines, regulations and education related to the storage and disposal of the accumulated medications at homes, they might lead to health crises if they are not properly stored at homes and if not safely disposed
Summary
The inefficient retention or disposal of medications has raised the health, safety and environmental concerns worldwide. The accumulation of unused medications at homes is a direct result of over-prescribing practices and robust advertising of the pharmaceuticals. Death of the user, or unsatisfactory therapeutic response of a patient may result in the discontinuation of the medication and the unused drugs gets accumulated. Almost 90% of the prescription drugs have been found to stay unused and discarded unethically, which eventually affects human being’s health as well as aquatic wildlife.[1] Another contributing factor is the quantity and diversity of medications that are added to the environment by the polypharmacy patients, who simultaneously use multiple drugs. There is an increase in the disease conditions such as diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular diseases, which results in a high prevalence of chronic usage of multiple medications. Decreasing the usage of drugs is the key to reduce the growing crises of APIs, which are everpresent contaminants, contributed by the improper disposal of pharmaceutical products.[2]
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