DISPOSAL OF EXPIRED OR UNUSED MEDICINES IN FEDERAL DISTRICT – BRAZIL: AN ANALYSIS OF REVERSE LOGISTICS

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https://doi.org/10.5935/2763-9673.20230008

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This study aims to analyze part of the Reverse Logistics chain of expired or unused medicines in the Federal District (FD) - Brazil, namely, the disposal by users and receipt by pharmacies and drugstores. As for the method, this is applied research, and primary and secondary data were collected. The application of the questionnaire resulted in 158 responses from residents of the Federal District and 65 companies were interviewed. The result with the residents shows that most of the population disposes of their medicines incorrectly; they never received information about the correct disposal of medicines; but residents who tried to deliver the medicines to pharmacies had no difficulty. The result of the research with drugstores shows that most of them receive expired or disused drugs; that dispensing containers are not available to customers, but that there are containers for primary storage within the pharmacies themselves. Thus, it is concluded that the main problem is in the first link of the chain that is, in consumers who do not dispose of waste correctly, since the next link in the chain, pharmacies, and drugstores, are not showing resistance when receiving the medicines, that is, they comply with their legal responsibility.

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05-04-2024

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