[Pharmwaste] Christie on take back

[Ed Gottlieb]

http://www.app.com/story/news/investigations/heroin-jersey-shore/2017/04/26/christie-drug-take-back-day/100922848/

"TOMS RIVER - Less than a month after taking on a new role leading a national commission battling the opioid epidemic, Gov. Chris Christie on Wednesday came to Toms River to tout one of the tools — started in New Jersey — for fighting drug abuse.


In an appearance at Toms River Police Department headquarters, Christie made a renewed pitch for prescription drug dropoff sites — places to dispose of unused medications safely. It was hardly a new endeavor.


In the fall of 2009, law enforcement officials and anti-drug advocates conjured up such dumping stations in a bid to counteract “pharm parties” where leftover prescription medicines are abused.

“Don’t leave the temptation in your home within arm’s length of your children and other family members,” said Christie, who is chairman of the national Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis.


To prevent water pollution, the governor further advised, don't flush pills down the toilet."

Other points Christie raised [excerpt]:

  *   Christie said that after he threatened in a speech to the Medical Society of New Jersey to regulate the program to require all prescribers and pharmacies to take part, the participation rose from 29 percent to over 90 percent.
“It doesn’t always have to be a requirement. Sometimes you just have to grab people by the lapels and shake them and say why aren’t you using this," he said.

Ed Gottlieb
Chair, Coalition for Safe Medication Disposal
Board Member, New York Product Stewardship Council
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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