Pharmaceutical pollution

Good resource on pharmaceutical pollution - public bodies in Scotland working together to reduce pharmaceutical pollution in the environment.

https://ohbp.org/

This is an environmental cost that isn't taken into account when thinking about 'net zero' healthcare, but prevention through moving towards more sustainable lifestyles would reduce the need for prescribing in the first place.

What do we know about pharmaceutical pollution from the medicines we prescribe in stroke care?  Paper below on statins...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878535219300875