Fiscal Note
The 2011 Public Health Adopted Operating Budget contains funding of $40,000 for the MedDrop program. This program is funded as a joint cost, with approximately $17,849 supported by the City tax levy and $22,151 provided by the Dane County levy. No additional appropriation is required.
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A Resolution authorizing the Board of Health for Madison and Dane County to enter into a contract for purchase of services with Safe Community Coalition of Madison and Dane County, Inc. to coordinate the MedDrop program
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MedDrop began with a volunteer network of pharmacists, law enforcement, and hazardous, solid waste and wastewater experts that held pharmaceutical collection events in Dane County twice a year since 2007. The group seeks to address issues affecting the safety of our communities-poisoning due to prescription medications and the presence of environmental toxins that enter our aquatic environment through the improper disposal of household pharmaceutical waste.
In a 2009 national youth risk behavior survey, one in five high school students reported using a prescription medication without a doctor’s prescription. A 2008 study revealed that 582,000 Wisconsin residents ages 12 or older had used a prescription medication for non-medical purpose in the previous year. Prescription drugs are now the leading type of poisoning overdoses that result in a death or hospitalization among residents of Madison and Dane County.
MedDrop was initiated as a public and private sector partnership, administered by the Madison Patient Safety Collaborative (MPSC). This MedDrop advisory group is not incorporated, but it has continued to sponsor pharmaceutical collection events. Although the MPSC folded in 2009, they gifted all their remaining funds to MedDrop.
MedDrop has sponsored two events each year where it accepts prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medication, as well as any illegal drugs. This removes these un-needed medications that can pose a threat t...
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