By Admin 
The medicines that have been expired or used in your house are no longer throw in the dustbin. India’s largest drug regulatory body, Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) has given new rules to hide them.
Flush these 17 drugs directly
CDSCO has released a list of 17 such drugs, which have been asked to flush in a sink or toilet directly when lying in the house or expired. These include pain reliever drugs such as phentanil, traumadol and nervous drug diazepam.
Why flush?
CDSCO says that these drugs can be very dangerous. If someone accidentally takes them such a person for whom they were not written, then a dose can also be fatal. Children or pets in the house do not have any danger from them, so flush them is the safest way.
What to do for other medicines?
CDSCO has said that they should not flush. To protect the environment from being contaminated, it is necessary to settle them in a scientific manner. For this, it has been suggested to start a new initiative, which has been named ‘Drug Tech Back’. Initially, the state’s drug control department and local chemists can jointly build centers in certain places, where people can submit their home expires or leftover medicines. After this, the state governments will have to make facility to collect these drugs in association with local bodies and to set up a hideout according to biomedical waste management rules.
CDSCO says that initially the Drug Control Department and Chemist Association of the state can jointly start ‘drug tech back’ program. People can deposit or not used drugs from their homes and then they will safely settle them with the help of association license agencies.
Why this guideline needed?
This new guideline has come after many research and reports, showing how the wrongly disposal of drugs is polluting the environment. In a study by Dr. T. Welpandian of AIIMS, the water of Yamuna river and borewell samples of Delhi-NCR were examined in 2018. It was found that the drugs thrown in the dustbin finally reach the environment. Not only this, bacteria that cause such diseases are also increasing, which do not affect medicines. In this study, antibiotics and other drugs were found in the water of the Yamuna River and Ghazipur landfill.
Max Healthcare’s pharmacy chief Devrati Majumdar has appreciated the government’s move. He informed that Max Healthcare is also planning to prepare a paper, which will be given to the patients on discharged from the hospital, so that they can be made aware of the correct methods of disposal of medicines. He also informed that in the list of flushing drugs, there are mostly medicines that may be addicted or who can be misused, so the government has advised them to flush.