DisposeRx™ is a patented* blend of solidifying materials that provides a solution for the safe disposal of unwanted or expired prescription drugs. Dedicated to environmentally friendly and safe disposal solutions, DisposeRx’s goal is to stop the opioid epidemic at the medicine cabinet by spearheading proactive disposal habits preventing the cycle of addiction. Our mission is to ensure public safety and prevent environmental pollution. We are committed to the healthy home by offering communities a safe and simple way to dispose of prescription drugs preventing the cycle of addictions, overdose, and death.

“It’s the worst drug overdose epidemic in American History” - Dr. Dan Ciccarone

DisposeRx™ is meeting the complex needs of solving the problem of safe prescription drug disposal by stopping unintended access with an environmentally friendly non-toxic solution of cross-linking polymers that permanently sequester unused or expired Rx Medications. Most drug abuse programs are “reactive”, directed down-stream to prevent illicit drug distributions and to treat people who are already addicted. We believe in a “proactive” up-stream approach driving stakeholder intervention at many levels – social, educational, cultural, medical, political and financial – that will curb illicit opioid use in our nation’s escalating epidemic.

Preventative Measures

The CDC’s number one preventive measure to stopping the opioid epidemic is to “limit initiation into opioid misuse and addiction”. By focusing upstream, we believe that we can get in front of the addiction problem at its source, safely and inexpensively cleaning out the home medicine cabinet. The statistics on the opioid epidemic keep growing, killing more people today per year than we on our national highway system (~59K), surpassing the HIV/AIDS epidemic numbers of the ‘90’s. With nearly 95M Americans using prescription pain killers last year and with more than 650,000 opioid prescriptions dispensed daily, we feel its urgent to stop the high costs of incineration, leachate and unreliable solutions, but instead dispense with all prescriptions a reliable solution that permanently sequesters and stops medicament diversion.

Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in U.S. Overdose deaths involving prescription opioids have quadrupled since 1999 with each day more than 1,000 people being treated in emergency departments for not using prescription opioids as directed.

-National Institute on Drug Abuse, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

with all evidence suggesting the problem has continued to worsen in 2017

In addition the problem of disposing unused, or expired prescription drugs within our home medicine cabinets, managed care facilities, hospitals and hospices centers has dramatically contributed to the rapid increase of prescription drug abuse, accidental poisonings, opioid overdoses and the pollution of our nation’s public drinking water supplies. Since 2000, almost half a million Americans have died from drug overdoses, largely due to opioids (Washington Post, November, 2016). Leftover prescription opioid abuse is directly responsible for 70% of subsequent heroin addictions as abusers turn to less expensive heroin to maintain habits.

There is NO U.S. governmental agency with authority to oversee drug disposal.

Controlled substances like opioids, amphetamines and other scheduled drugs can only be accepted by law enforcement officials or under law enforcement supervision. Their disposal requires detailed record keeping, shipment tracking under guard and observed destruction, usually by expensive incineration processing. According to the DEA (December 2012), the disposal of unwanted drugs within the current regulatory and legal framework is complex and ineffective. This is largely due to the restrictive handling of controlled substance and the conflicting recommendations among the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

*patent pending

DisposeRx™ solutions for the safe disposal of medications

Designed and led by pharmaceutical scientists our approach is based on more than 60 years of scientific experience. DisposeRx™ has patented* a simple site-of-use solution of materials with cross-linking chemical reagents for the sequestration and safe disposal of unused, expired or leftover medications.

Our solidifying substance of high viscosity gel sequesters drugs in a solid matrix from which they cannot be easily extracted or leach into the environment. The materials used are safe and listed in the FDA’s Inactive Ingredient Database. These materials can be found in approved oral drug products as well as in foods, thus safe to ingest if accidental exposure occurs. DisposeRx™ matrix permanently sequesters drugs in any form (powders, pills, tablets, capsules, liquids or patches) our patented* gel, which is designed to deter, extraction of active agent by aqueous, alcoholic means or vaporization.

About DisposeRx™ and it’s patented* polymers

DisposeRx™ formulated its products to be compliant with evolving recommended governmental standards including DEA guidelines. Furthermore, both the drugs, and the DisposeRx™ polymers into which they are sequestered, are biodegradable. In landfills, for example, microbes will consume this polymer-drug mixture and release carbon dioxide and methane as metabolite gasses over time.

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Contact: 135 West Illinois Ave. Suite 1, Southern Pines, NC 28387 T/ (844) 456-1600 E/ info@DisposeRx.com www.DisposeRx.com

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