ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs2016
The American Medicine Chest Challenge: Evaluation of a Drug Take-Back and Disposal Campaign.
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16 citing papers in PubMed.
- Bibliometric Analysis and Review of Global Academic Research on Drug Take-Back Programs.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Text Message Intervention to Facilitate Secure Storage and Disposal of Prescription Opioids to Prevent Diversion and Misuse: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Strategies for Effective Public Health Communication in a Complex Information Environment.Annual review of public health · 2025Review
- Unused medicine take-back programmes: a systematic review.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2024Review
- Differences in the attitudes towards the opioid crisis between metropolitan and rural counties in Central Texas: Secondary data analysis using cross-sectional data.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- Safely disposing unused and unwanted prescription and over-the-counter medications: a public health, housing, and safety partnership in Framingham, MA.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2022Article
- Disposal practices for unused and expired medications: pilot data from three cities in three countries.GMS health innovation and technologies · 2022Article
- Predictors of Safe Prescription Opioid Storage and Participation in Drug Take-Back Events: Results from a Statewide Survey.Journal of community health · 2021Article
- Developing a health communication campaign for disposal of unused opioid medications.Addictive behaviors reports · 2020Article
- Modifiable Risk Factors Associated With Disposal of Unused Prescription Drugs by Parents of Adolescents.The journal of primary prevention · 2020Article
- Cleaning up China's Medical Cabinet-An Antibiotic Take-Back Programme to Reduce Household Antibiotic Storage for Unsupervised Use in Rural China: A Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Encouraging Disposal of Unused Opioid Analgesics in Appalachia.Drugs (Abingdon, England) · 2020Article
- Disposal of prescription drugs by parents of middle and high school students.Journal of child & adolescent substance abuse · 2019Article
- Diffusion of medication drop-boxes in North Carolina from 2007 to 2016.Addictive behaviors · 2018Article
- Medication disposal practices: Increasing patient and clinician education on safe methods.The Journal of international medical research · 2018Review
- Rural Emergency Medical Service Providers Perceptions on the Causes of and Solutions to the Opioid Crisis: A Qualitative Assessment.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
objectivePrescription drug take-back programs provide a safe and convenient way to dispose of expired, unwanted, or unused medications that people store in homes, thus limiting the potential misuse of prescription drugs. This study evaluated public response to a social marketing campaign promoting a community-based drug take-back program, the American Medicine Chest Challenge.
methodA telephone survey was conducted with a representative sample of adults in New Jersey (N = 906) 2 weeks following the conclusion of the statewide collection day event in November 2010. The survey assessed public exposure to the campaign and the extent to which it is associated with public perceptions and behaviors the campaign was designed to influence.
resultsThe campaign, which relied heavily on community channels for the dissemination of messages, was able to reach directly more than 60% of its target audience. When potential confounders were controlled for, campaign exposure was a strong predictor of a respondent having one or more conversations with others about medicine disposal (odds ratio [OR] = 2.4, 95% CI [1.5, 3.6]); actually disposing of expired, unwanted, or unused medicine in a collection site (OR = 2.14, 95% CI [1.15, 3.9]); and talking to kids about the dangers of prescription drug abuse (OR = 1.65, 95% CI [1.1, 2.45])-all of which were exclusively promoted through the campaign.
conclusionsThis case illustrates the potential efficacy of community-based prevention marketing efforts to stimulate community discourse regarding the dangers of prescription drug misuse and to decrease the availability of expired, unwanted, or unused medicine in the community.
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