[Pharmwaste] DEA announces take-back events for 2016

[Ed Gottlieb]

Obama Administration Announces Public and Private Sector Efforts to Address Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Use
Focus is on:  Prescriber Training & Improving Access to Treatment

Additional Federal actions announced today include:

  *   The Drug Enforcement Administration announced that it will continue its National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day program events in the spring and fall of 2016.  As the President highlighted in a recent Weekly Address, Take-Back Day aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposing of unused prescription drugs, while educating the public about the dangers of misusing medications.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/21/fact-sheet-obama-administration-announces-public-and-private-sector

Ed Gottlieb
Chair, Coalition for Safe Medication Disposal
Industrial Pretreatment Coordinator
Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility
525 3rd Street
Ithaca, NY  14850
(607) 273-8381
fax: (607) 273-8433
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