2011 International Symposium on Safe Medicine

(formerly known as the International Symposium on Pharmaceuticals in the Home and Environment)

Sunday-Tuesday, October 2-4, 2011

Holiday Inn by the Bay Hotel and Convention Center

Portland, Maine

View the Conference Announcement (PDF format)

View the Conference Program (PDF format)

Electronic Conference Presentations and Materials

Fred A. Baughman Jr., DEAD IN BED IN THE U.S. MILITARY

Megan Bozarth, The P2D2 Bill/Illinois HB 2056

Burke Lucy, Recommendations or Home-Generated Pharmaceutical Collection Programs in California

Ann Conver, The American Medicine Chest Challenge

Jennifer Crittenden,Safe Medicine Disposal for ME: 2011 Update

Jayne Harper, The Bi-County Safe Collection & Disposal of Prescription Drugs

Jeanie Jaramillo and Stevan Gressitt, Unused Medications: Where are we now?

Patricia Lapera and Susan Payne, Using the Maine PMP to Improve Prescribing Practices for Potentially Addictive Prescription Medications

Alison Martin, Sproxil

Marti Martz, Great Lakes Unwanted Meds Mailback

Anna McCartney and Marti Martz, Partnerships for protecting our water sources and public health: Meddical Communities, Educators and the General Public

Quincy Mattingly, CENTRALIZED SECURITY FEATURE FOR SAFE MEDICINE MANAGEMENT

Kenneth McCall, Chunhao Tu, Matthew Lacroix, Kevin Wallace, Christina Holt, Jonathan Balk, Controlled Substance Prescribing Trends and Physician and Pharmacy Utilization Patterns: Epidemiological Analysis of the Maine Prescription Monitoring Program, 2006 - 2010

Ronald F. Hayden, Ann E. McDonald, John F. Rogers, Alex N. Sabo, Improving Clinical Effectiveness and Risk Control in Chronic Pain Management:he Berkshire County Experience

Robert Morrissette, Maine’s Legislative Process

Helen Pervanas, Organizing a Medication Disposal Event: Results of a Pilot Project in NH

Jim Rittenburg, Counterfeit Drugs, A tough pill to swallow

Heather Stewart and Stevan Gressitt, Maine State Medication Take Back Data

Theo Theophanides, In the search of new uses for old drugs

Angelo Valente, The American Medicine Chest Challenge

Scott Voss, Promoting Safe Medicine With Track and Trace Systems

Ann L. Woloson, Show Me the Evidence: Ensuring Access to Safe, Effective and ffordable Prescription Drugs

Ann L. Woloson and Jennifer Reck, Show Me the Evidence: Ensuring Access to Safe, Effective and ffordable Prescription Drugs

Maine Benzodiazepine Study Group University of Maine Center on Aging Camden Hall 25 Texas Avenue Bangor, Maine 04401-4324 Phone: 1 (207) 262-7920 Fax: 1 (207) 262-7921 Email: gressitt@gmail.com