This survey revealed that the general public has a high level of awareness concerning the abuse potential of over-the-counter medicines. Health care professionals should seek to understand and respect patients' choices to assure optimal care. Pharmacists could be more proactive in the management of inappropriate over-the-counter drug use.

In order for people to use non-prescription products properly, it would be definitely necessary to elaborate a successful national education strategy. The population expects information concerning medicaments to be communicated in the pharmacies in an understandable way. It should be in the pharmacy where patients learn about the medicaments they take, where the pharmacist knows what other medicines have been prescribed by a doctor, and whether patients have any illnesses whereby they should not take other products.

This report provides an update, as of July 1999, on the implementation of best available technology to control or eliminate radionuclide discharges to soil columns at Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company-operated facilities at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in accordance with DOE Order 5400.5, "Radiation Protection of the Public and Environment." This report reviews the following facilities:

plan must include a certification, signed by an authorized individual, that discharges from the site have been tested or evaluated for the presence of non-storm water discharges ...." Section C, Part 4, Paragraph 1, requires annual inspections to "continn the accuracy of the description of potential pollution sources...." Identification of non-storm water sources has been accomplished by the INEL Liquid Effluent Inventory. ,.