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FALLS CHURCH, Va. â While April 24 has officially been designated National Drug Take Back Day by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), pharmacists across the Military Health System in recent years have been stressing that every day is a drug take back day.
Thatâs because MHS pharmacies are outfitted with MedSafe medication disposal boxes, which can accept all pills, along with properly sealed powders, liquid medications and lotions, and dermal patches. MHS pharmacies also provide mail-in envelopes for medications.
âThe bins are right there when you walk into the pharmacy,â U.S. Public Health Service Cmdr. Thien Nguyen, a pharmacist with the Market Management Branch of Pharmacy Operations for the Defense Health Agency, said. âWe wanted to make sure that our beneficiaries knew that any time they were able to get through their medicine cabinets and put in their expired medications, or medications they donât use anymore, they can bring it in to us any
May 1, 2021
Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Jonathan F. Lenzner and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Orville O. Greene of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Baltimore District Office announced today that the Drug Enforcement Administration’s 20
th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day held on Saturday, April 24, 2021, collected 11,536.59 pounds of potentially dangerous prescription medications at Maryland’s approximately 100 available sites. The nationwide event is held twice a year and aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs and educating the general public about the potential for abuse of medications.
“Pharmaceutical pills can be just as harmful as illegal drugs when they are used without proper medical supervision and without valid medical need,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Jonathan F. Lenzner.
As concerns about the pandemic begin to wane, the Maricopa County Sheriffâs Office is getting ready to reassert its public outreach programs, according to MCSO Capt. Larry Kratzer, commander for the Sheriffâs District 7 based in Fountain Hills.
Kratzer was addressing the Town Council with his monthly update on April 20 when he made the comments.
He cited the annual Drug Take Back Day, which was held this past weekend, but had been postponed due to coronavirus concerns.
Deputies were on hand outside Town Hall Saturday receiving unused prescription drugs being dropped off by residents. The drugs are turned over to DEA for disposal.
UpdatedTue, Apr 27, 2021 at 8:24 am ET
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Officers from the Mount Vernon District Station pose next to garbage bags filled with unwanted medications collected Saturday as part of the annual DEA National Drug Take Back Day. (Fairfax County Police Department)
FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA Fairfax County Police Department collected 2,038 pounds of unwanted and expired medications Saturday as part of the DEA National Drug Take Back Day, according to a post on the department s official Twitter account.
Officers from FCPD s eight district stations helped county residents drop off unwanted and expired medications.
According to the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, millions of people every year misuse prescription pain relievers, stimulants, tranquilizers and sedatives. Nearly 50,000 people in the United States died from opioid-involved overdoses that year.