PGH Sharing Call: What Do the new DEA’s Controlled Substances Rules Mean for Your Facility?
On September 9, 2014, the Disposal of Controlled Substances final rule was published in the Federal Register. The final rule is available at http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drug_disposal/index.htmland the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) website,http://www.DEAdiversion.usdoi.gov. The final rule will become effective on October 9, 2014.
Join Practice Greenhealth and industry expert Charlotte A. Smith, R. Ph., M.S., for an overview of the revised Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) rules regarding controlled substance disposal. This call will cover
- The DEA’s non-retrievable standard: what are your options?
- Options for managing routine controlled substances -- “wasting.”
- Whether your facility should become an authorized collector of consumer drugs
Join us for an overview and a discussion, including sharing ideas and potential best practices in the Practice Greenhealth membership community which includes acute care, post-acute or specialty care hospitals, nursing homes, hospice, outpatient care and other providers.
Presenter
Charlotte Smith is a consultant in the area of pharmaceutical waste management
and Senior Regulatory Advisor, PharmEcology Services, a business unit of Waste
Management Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (WMHS), a Waste Management company. She
founded PharmEcology Associates, LLC in 2000 and sold the company to WMHS in
2009. She co-founded Capital Returns, Inc., a nationally known pharmaceutical
reverse distributor in 1991 and for 10 years served as president and chief
regulatory advisor. Ms. Smith is a registered pharmacist who received her BS in
Pharmacy and MS in Continuing and Vocational Education from the University of
Wisconsin. She is a member of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin, the American
Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and the Association for the Healthcare
Environment. She can be reached at 414-915-4026 or atcharlottesmith12@gmail.com.
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