Credit: Andrea Morales
From the outside, Kimberly Ladd s life seemed to be going well in 2007. The wife of an Army combat veteran who had done tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, Ladd was raising two young daughters in Spring Hill, Tenn., while working as a corporate trainer, a job she loved. But she had a dark secret: She was addicted to opioids. I couldn t feel without them, she says. At the worst of it, it s all you can think of.
Her addiction began after she took a few of her father s leftover pain pills to cope with severe headaches, and it spiraled as her own prescription ran out and she looked for ways to cope with stress in her marriage. The more you use, the more your body needs, says Ladd, now 45. Very quickly things get out of control.
Drug Take Back Day
Drug Take Back – April 24, 2021 – 10am-2pm / Waupaca Police Department
The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) will coordinate a Prescription Drug Take Back Initiative throughout Wisconsin. The Prescription Drug Take-Back Day goal is to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposal of prescription medications, while also educating the general public about the potential for abuse of these medications. Unused prescription medications in homes create a public health and safety concern, because they can be accidentally ingested, stolen, misused, and abused.
Unused or expired medicine should never be flushed or poured down the drain. Removing potentially dangerous pharmaceutical substances from our state’s medicine cabinets helps to prevent them from going into our water supply. Water reclamation facilities are not designed to remove all of them and trace amounts of pharmaceuticals are showing up in rivers and lakes around the world.
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By Sharon Aron Baron
The challenge of coordinating events in a safe and socially distanced environment is why the Coral Springs Police Department has named Monica Vargas, their Civilian of the Quarter.
The COVID 19 pandemic has caused extra work and planning for the Community Involvement Outreach programming; however, Vargas, the coordinator, completed her assignments and duties and participated with other city workgroups to accomplish their goals.
Vargas coordinated and reimagined community events like the DEA Pill Drug Takeback, Shred-a-thons, Angel Tree Toy Giveaways, Abi’s Place Holiday Party, Holiday Toy Drive, among a multitude of community-specific events.
She was able to help facilitate 350 families with meals and gift cards for the Thanksgiving Holiday. When some of the residents heard about the great work, they reached out to her to help generate donations to feed 350 families in December.
Covanta
In 2010 the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) launched a Drug Take Back program, and for one of the first times the public had a way to dispose their unwanted meds other than flushing them or tossing them in the trash to infiltrate waterways and landfills. But the federal program was just a one-day event, held once a year. Ten years later, even though nearly four billion prescriptions are issued annually, including 153 million opioids, options for safe and environmental drug disposal are still limited, though they have grown exponentially in a fairly short time - this past October the DEA collected over one million pounds from 4,500 locations nationwide.