Asami Ota, Shinnosuke Kurata, Kaho Tatsuma, Hinako Isaka, Yoshinori Higuchi, Takeshi Nishina, Keiko Haraguchi, Junichi Takaki, Taro Kihara, Taizo Tanaka, Tomoko Amagata, Ichiro Inaba, Takehiro Kawashiri, Daisuke Kobayashi, Takao Shimazoe
Medical expenses are increasing year by year in Japan. However, the quantity of disposed medical opioids is not well known. In this study, we assessed disposed medical opioids in community pharmacies of Fukuoka city and in all of medical organizations of Kumamoto cities for 3 and 2 years, respectively. We collected official opioid disposal reports in Kumamoto city and Fukuoka City Pharmaceutical Association disposal information sheet in Fukuoka city. The total amount of disposed opioids was worth 7.1 million ¥ from 2017 to 2019 in Fukuoka city, and 8...
March 9, 2023: Yakugaku Zasshi: Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan