The Pharmaceutical Stewardship Act of 2011 (HR 2939) was introduced in mid-September by Congresswoman Louise Slaughter as legislation that would aim to provide Americans with a means of safely disposing pharmaceuticals and ensuring that the medications would be kept out of drinking water and out of the hands of children or criminals.
Slaughter’s Sept. 19 press release referred to the situation as a “Witch’s brew of pharmaceuticals entering and contaminating [the] nation’s waterways and putting public safety at risk.”
