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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-font-kerning:
18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Obama Administration Announces Public and Private Sector Efforts to Address Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Use</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Focus is on: <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Prescriber Training</span></i> &
<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Improving Access to Treatment<b><br>
</b></span></i><b><br>
</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Additional Federal actions announced today include</span>:
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<span style="font-family:
"Times New Roman"">The <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">
Drug Enforcement Administration</span> 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.</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/21/fact-sheet-obama-administration-announces-public-and-private-sector</span></p>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"><font><span style="font-size:" lang="en-US">
<div>Ed Gottlieb<br>
Chair, Coalition for Safe Medication Disposal<br>
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<div>Industrial Pretreatment Coordinator</div>
<div>Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility<br>
525 3<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><sup>rd</sup></font> Street</div>
<div>Ithaca, NY 14850</div>
<div>(607) 273-8381</div>
<div>fax: (607) 273-8433</div>
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