by Joshua Sabatini
San Francisco will continue to operate a medicine-disposal program for at least another year after negotiating a $125,000 donation from a leading drug manufacturing group to pay for half the costs, the Department of the Environment indicated Thursday. Yet the deal with the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America does not satisfy the desire of city officials for a more robust program, with disposal sites at every point of sale of prescription drugs.…[ Read more ]