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<p class=MsoNormal>Here’s an interesting article from the Stevens Point
Journal in Wisconsin. Sorry for any cross postings. The link is: <a
href="http://www.stevenspointjournal.com/article/20090603/SPJ0101/906030643/1657&located=RSS">http://www.stevenspointjournal.com/article/20090603/SPJ0101/906030643/1657&located=RSS</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Drop box to combat drug use, pollution</span><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>
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By Cara Spoto<br>
Journal staff</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Old
pharmaceuticals are hard pills for communities to swallow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Police see
the damage leftover narcotics and stimulants cause when they get into the hands
of drug abusers. Solid waste officials see the pills end up in landfills,
leaching chemicals into the environment. And, sewer plant workers say the
all-too-common practice of flushing old pills down the toilet has caused trace
amounts of medications to show up in rivers and streams.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Officials in
Portage County might have found a solution to the problem, however.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>On Monday,
the Portage County Space and Properties Committee voted to approve the
placement of a pharmaceuticals drop box at the courthouse. Installed in the
waiting area of the Stevens Point Police dispatch office, the box will be
available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for people to drop off any unused
or expired medications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Former
Portage County Solid Waste Administrator Meleesa Johnson suggested a permanent
drop box be installed after she saw what a huge response her department had to
four medication collection events it sponsored.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"The
next logical conclusion was to have something permanent," Johnson said, adding
that she worked with the Stevens Point Police Department to make the program a
reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The box is
now available and bolted to the ground to prevent theft, but Stevens Point
Police Chief Kevin Ruder said the department is not yet prepared to accept piles
of pills.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"We are
in the process of finalizing a policy. We won't turn people away, but we are
not prepared to have a full community drop-off," Ruder said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A detailed
disposal and storage policy for the disposed medications still must be drafted,
but Ruder said the plan is to send the pills -- once they have collected a
substantial amount -- to Illinois to be incinerated. In the meantime, the
pharmaceuticals will be secured in the box or the department's evidence room,
he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"I
think it's great to have an ongoing program, and it makes sense to have it at
the courthouse," Jeanne Dodge, chairwoman of space and properties
committee, said of the drop box Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Stevens
Point Mayor Andrew Halverson, also a member of the committee, said the city was
"extremely excited" about the box.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"The
prescription drug abuse that is going on right now, especially amongst youths,
is just rampant," he said, "so this will be at least one way,
hopefully, for us to get it under control."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ruder
agreed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"We are
removing these pharmaceuticals and narcotics from the street (preventing)
possible ingestion by children, for one, and two, any kind of attempts to sell
them for profit," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Jeff Hollar</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>President</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>4164 NW Urbandale
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Urbandale, IA
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>(E) <a
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