Disposing of medicines safely

Affiliations

¹ Kevin M. Fain and G. Caleb Alexander are with the Department of Epidemiology and the Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.

Comment

Kevin M Fain et al. Am J Public Health. 2014 Dec.

. 2014 Dec;104(12):e2-3.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302296. Epub 2014 Oct 16.

¹ Kevin M. Fain and G. Caleb Alexander are with the Department of Epidemiology and the Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.

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