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Saturday is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Learn how you can find a take back site Share Updated: 11:20 PM EDT Apr 23, 2021 WLWT Digital Staff
Saturday is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Learn how you can find a take back site Share Updated: 11:20 PM EDT Apr 23, 2021 WLWT Digital Staff WLWT Digital Staff Saturday is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The day is dedicated to addressing a major public health issue in the nation. According to the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 9.7 million people misused prescription pain relievers, 4.9 million people misused prescription stimulants, and 5.9 million people misused prescription tranquilizers or sedatives in 2019, as stated on Take Back Day s website.The survey revealed that a majority of misusers got the drugs from family and friends, often from a home medicine cabinet.Take Back Day allows people to dispose of
The DEA wants your unused prescription drugs
If you have unwanted prescription drugs sitting in your medicine cabinet, the Drug Enforcement Administration will be happy to help out.
The federal drug agency wants your unused or expired prescriptions for its 20th National Prescription Take Back Day on Saturday to help ensure homes are safe from drug abuse.
When walk-in clinics and syringe exchange programs closed at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, experts expressed concern that the virus would exacerbate America’s opioid epidemic.
Those fears have largely played out.
More than 87,000 people in the United States died from drug overdoses over the 12-month period that ended in September 2020, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those drug overdose deaths were the most ever recorded in a one-year period.
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa Hy-Vee, Inc. announced today that all Hy-Vee Pharmacy locations throughout Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin will participate in National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, April 24, according to a media release from the company.According to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 87,200 people in the U.S. died from drug overdoses, primarily related to opioids, in a 12-month period from September to September 2020, with the largest increase in deaths occurring in April and May 2020 right after the COVID-19 pandemic began.Since 2019, drug take-back receptacles have been available inside all Hy-Vee Pharmacy locations year-round to provide customers a secure place to dispose of unused, unwanted or expired drugs in communities throughout the Midwest and remove them from the environment. To-date, Hy-Vee has collected more than 60,000 pounds of prescription drugs vi
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