Elsevier

The Lancet

Volume 313, Issue 8116, 17 March 1979, Pages 599-601
The Lancet

Occasional Surveys
RETURNED-MEDICINES CAMPAIGN IN BIRMINGHAM, 1977

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Abstract

In a returned-medicines campaign lasting 3 weeks 362 000 tablets and capsules were returned in 11 400 containers from a population of 1·5 million. This yield was considered low. A comparison of hospital admission figures for childhood poisoning before, during, and immediately after the campaign suggests that the publicity and the destruction of unwanted medicines had little preventive value. The quantities of different medicines returned were roughly proportional to the quantities prescribed.

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