Do you have old, unused medications just sitting around your home waiting to fall into the wrong hands? Anyone who enters your home could gain access to those medications and you wouldn’t even miss them. Most abusers say that’s where they got the first prescription medications that started them on…
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Prescription Drug Take Back Day is 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, April 28, 2018 Do you have old, unused medications just sitting around your home waiting to fall into the wrong hands? Anyone who enters your home could gain access to those medications and you wouldn’t even miss them.…
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Californians dropped off 37 tons of unwanted medications during the thirteenth National Prescription Take Back Day on April 29 – netting the largest haul out of any state in the country. California also boasted the most drop-off locations and the third highest number of law enforcement partners when compared to…
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In an effort to curb the growing national opioid and heroin epidemic, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has launched an educational program for middle- and high-school students called “Operation Prevention.” According to the Centers for Disease Control, 78 people die every day in the U.S. because of prescription opioid…
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DEA event has resulted in safe collection and destruction of 2,762 tons of unused prescription drugs Get ready to raid your medicine chests: Saturday, April 30, is National Prescription Drug Take Back day from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at a location near you! Medicines that languish in home storage…
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Keeping prescription drugs out of the wrong hands is one of the goals of this Saturday’s DEA Drug Take-Back. Last year in California, more than one billion hydrocodone pain pills were dispensed – that’s enough for a month’s supply for every California adult. Many of those narcotics are no longer…