Experience in a college institution in the collection project of unused medicines

Abstract

The university extension program involves a process connecting teaching and research to the society. Aiming to integrate university pharmacy with the “5Rs University Extension Program”, it was collected unused medicines from the academic community. The collected material was evaluated quali- and quantitatively from September/2013 to February/2015. As a result, a high amount of synthetic allopathic medicine was 97.3% of the total sampled, being 43% as non-prescribed medicine and the pharmacological classes mostly discharged were the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (20.4%), followed by the antimicrobials (16.7%). The critical analysis (SWOT) allowed identifying the strong points, opportunities, weaknesses and threats to the project, as well as a proposal to implant improvements. This activity allowed the pharmacy students to develop a critical census about the rational use of medicine (RUM) and identify the role of the pharmaceutical in the promotion of URM and the proper disposal of medicines.

Keywords

• Descarte Correto
• Medicamentos
• Sustentabilidade
• Uso Racional de Medicamentos