While some states and individuals are looking to foreign importation of drugs to cut costs, . Oklahoma is turning its pilot program for sending unused prescription drugs from nursing homes to county-run pharmacines into a full-time program as of January 1, 2005. The program has safeguards typical of other programs, such as the medicine must be in its original, sealed condition and that it has not expired.
If enough states are able to really generate sufficient stores of non-expired prescription drugs, this could prove to be at least an aspirin to help with the giant migraine consumers have been experiencing in trying to pay for their drugs. The FDA has been strongly opposed to the states' implementation of programs to import drugs from Canada and other countries, but has stayed out of states' drug recycling efforts.
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