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SIRUM (organization)
SIRUM (Supporting Initiatives to Redistribute Unused Medicine) is a non-profit social enterprise started by Stanford University students to decrease the amount of medicine going to waste in the U.S. by redistributing unused, unexpired drugs to safety-net clinics. Using an innovative technology platform, SIRUM saves lives, time, and money by allowing health facilities, manufacturers, wholesalers, and pharmacies to easily donate unused medicine rather than destroy it.
==Opportunity==
An estimated $5 billion worth of usable medicine goes to waste each year in the United States—yet 50 million Americans report not being able to afford taking their medications as prescribed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Insuring the Future: Current Trends in Health Coverage and the Effects of Implementing the Affordable Care Act )〕 Americans’ medication non-adherence results in an estimated 125,000 annual deaths and costs up to $289 billion annually.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=To Gather Drug Data, a Health Start-Up Turns to Consumers )〕 The act of wasting that $5 billion of usable medicine each year also has consequences for Americans, polluting air and water supplies, and resulting in the duplicative purchasing and manufacturing of drugs to meet patient needs—which could otherwise be met by drawing on that $5 billion medication surplus.
Much of the surplus unused medicine wasted each year resides with healthcare companies and organizations, such as with long-term care facilities, pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesalers, and pharmacies. Because these surplus medications remain in institutional settings throughout their life cycles, their integrity is carefully maintained by trained healthcare professionals. Patients who cannot afford to purchase the prescriptions they need could greatly benefit from having access to these safe, unexpired, and unopened medications that otherwise go to waste.
Forty states around the country have recently recognized this opportunity and passed so-called “Good Samaritan” laws providing legal protection and regulatory guidelines for the creation of medicine redistribution programs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=State Prescription Drug Return, Reuse and Recycling Laws )〕
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