A bill regarding safe disposal of controlled substance medications will impact Texas pharmacists and pharmacies beginning in January 2020. House Bill 2088, which was passed by the Texas Legislature and signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott in June 2019, will require the following: “A person dispensing a controlled substance under a prescription shall provide […]
DisposeRx Blog Posts
Ohio Governor Hopes New Program Will Help Facilitate Opioid Disposal, Prevent Diversion and Addiction
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) recently announced a drug disposal program in which each injured worker will receive a DisposeRx packet or another drug disposal solution when he or she picks up an opioid prescription for the first time. All retail pharmacies in Ohio are participating in the program, […]
Remembering DisposeRx Founder, Chairman and CEO
John W. Holaday, Ph.D., was a husband, father, brother, uncle, veteran, scientist, entrepreneur, patent-holder, philanthropist, activist, author and businessman. To those of us on the DisposeRx Team, he was our chief executive officer, leader, visionary, role model, champion and friend. Quite simply, he was our North Star. John had a profound impact on many during […]
Insights from the New Jersey Town Hall on the Opioid Crisis
The statistics are startling: 8 New Jersians die every day from opioid addiction and overdoses–3,100 New Jersians died in 2018, and there were 1,400 deaths in the first eight months of 2019 9 million opioid prescriptions were written in NJ from January-June 2019 8,000 Naloxone incidents were recorded in New Jersey just in the first […]
Message to CEO’s: Take the Pledge
I first called John Hindman after I read a heart-wrenching article about him describing the tragic loss of his son, Sean, to an opioid overdose. Accompanying the article was a photograph of John sitting in the bleachers holding his son’s well-worn soccer ball. As a father of two boys, I can’t imagine having to deal […]
