[Pharmwaste] County Wants Drug Companies to Pay

Stevan Gressitt gressitt at gmail.com
Fri Mar 2 19:55:29 EST 2012


How many counties are there in the United States?

There are 3,141 counties and county equivalents in the 50 States and the
District of Columbia. They are categorized as follows:

3,007 counties
16 Boroughs in Alaska
11 Census Areas in Alaska (for areas not organized into Boroughs by the
State)
64 Parishes in Louisiana
42 Independent Cities (1 in Maryland, 1 in Missouri, 1 in Nevada, and the
remainder in Virginia)
1 District - the Federal District or District of Columbia.

This does not include Commonwealths and territories with what are generally
county equivalents, which are as follows:

78 Municipalities in Puerto Rico
2 Districts in the U.S. Virgin Islands
9 Election Districts in Guam
17 Districts in the Northern Mariana Islands
and
5 Districts in American Samoa

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Jeff Hollar <jhollar at pwaste.com> wrote:

> A proposed Alameda County ordinance forcing drug companies to offer
> disposal of unwanted prescription medication passed its initial hurdle
> Tuesday before the county board of supervisors.  Full story below****
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> http://www.ebcitizen.com/2012/02/alameda-county-prescription-drug.html****
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> Will this be a trend for other counties across the US?****
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> Jeff Hollar****
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> *PharmWaste Technologies, Inc.*****
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> Urbandale, IA 50322****
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> 515-276-5302 (general)****
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> 515-331-7310 (direct)****
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> 515-360-9785 (cell)****
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> www.pwaste.com****
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-- 
Stevan Gressitt, M.D.
Faculty Associate, University of Maine Center on Aging
Academic Member, Athens Institute for Education and Research
Athens, Greece
Founding Director, International Institute for Pharmaceutical Safety
University of New England, College of Pharmacy
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
University of New England, College of Osteopathic Medicine
314 Clark Road
Unity, Maine, 04988
gressitt at gmail.com
Cell: 207-441-0291
www.benzos.une.edu
www.safemeddisposal.com
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