$11 Billion In Unopened Medicine Goes To Waste Every Year. This Nonprofit Is Getting Them To People Who Need Them Most

$11 Billion In Unopened Medicine Goes To Waste Every Year. This Nonprofit Is Getting Them To People Who Need Them Most

$11 Billion In Unopened Medicine Goes To Waste Every Year. This Nonprofit Is Getting Them To People Who Need Them Most At TEDNext in Atlanta, Georgia earlier this week, healthcare expert Kiah Williams acknowledged that the American healthcare system is “a behemoth.”  But she doesn’t think it’s doomed.  “I have never met anyone who works in care who doesn't want to help people,” Williams told Good Good Good. “What's happened is we've created this system that is not set up to do it. And so you have people fighting upstream to do that.”  Williams is the co-founder of Sirum, a nonprofit social enterprise that takes unopened, unexpired prescription medication and redistributes it to low-income communities across the country.  Every year, $11 billion in salvageable prescriptions are flushed or trashed — but Sirum has been hard at work to chip away at those numbers.  With funding support through TED’s Audacious Project, Sirum has grown considerably. Williams said it’s the difference be…