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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2017/10/04/walgreens-expands-drug-disposal-to-1500-stores-in-opioid-battle/#f450c14336ea">https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2017/10/04/walgreens-expands-drug-disposal-to-1500-stores-in-opioid-battle/#f450c14336ea</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#385723">This is wonderful news! Location announcements will be forth coming according to Walgreens. Heidi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt">Walgreens Expands Medication Disposal To 1,500 Stores In Opioid Battle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="62" height="62" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D33CE2.703BF790" alt="https://0.gravatar.com/avatar/f1921ee47648baa1db60adbb72ba9cb3?s=62&d=mm&r=g"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/">Bruce Japsen
</a>, Contributor <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I write about healthcare business and policy <span style="font-size:10.0pt">
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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and its partners are working on a safe and effective medication supply chain</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
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will add 900 additional kiosks over 10 months to its existing 600 safe medication disposal sites</a><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Walgreens Boots Alliance will expand the number of safe medication disposal kiosks across the country to 1,500 stores, specifically targeting locations near “military bases and
other areas where the opioid epidemic has challenged communities,” the <a href="http://news.walgreens.com/press-releases/general-news/amerisourcebergen-blue-cross-blue-shield-association-pfizer-and-prime-therapeutics-join-walgreens-to-combat-prescription-drug-abuse-by-expanding-safe-medication-disposal-program.htm" target="_blank">
nation’s largest drugstore chain said Wednesday</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Walgreens is the latest healthcare company to step up efforts to combat the abuse and misuse of the overprescribed painkillers. Already, Walgreens rival CVS Health and several health
insurance companies including Anthem, Cigna and UnitedHealth Group have increased restrictions to reduce the number of opioid prescriptions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Walgreens Boots Alliance will expand by 900 the number of safe medication disposal kiosks across the country, specifically targeting stores near “military bases and other areas where the opioid epidemic has challenged communities,” the nation’s largest drugstore
chain said. It will have 1,500 medication disposal kiosks within two years.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">While the insurers and pharmacy benefit managers attack the opioid epidemic by analyzing claims and educating physician prescribers to make sure Americans are getting their medications
in the right place, in the right amount and at the right time, <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fbrucejapsen%2F2017%2F10%2F04%2Fwalgreens-expands-drug-disposal-to-1500-stores-in-opioid-battle%2F&text=Walgreens%20and%20its%20partners%20are%20working%20on%20a%20safe%20and%20effective%20medication%20supply%20chain" target="_blank">
Walgreens and its partners are working on a safe and effective medication supply chain</a> .<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fbrucejapsen%2F2017%2F10%2F04%2Fwalgreens-expands-drug-disposal-to-1500-stores-in-opioid-battle%2F&text=Walgreens%20will%20add%20900%20additional%20kiosks%20over%2010%20months%20to%20its%20existing%20600%20safe%20medication%20disposal%20sites" target="_blank">Walgreens
will add 900 additional kiosks over 10 months to its existing 600 safe medication disposal sites</a> . The effort is designed to “make it easier for people to dispose of their unwanted medications,” Walgreens president Alex Gourlay said.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Walgreens is working with drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, drug maker Pfizer and Prime Therapeutics, a pharmacy benefit manager owned by Blue
Cross plans, which are helping sponsor the safe medication initiative.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fbrucejapsen%2F2017%2F10%2F04%2Fwalgreens-expands-drug-disposal-to-1500-stores-in-opioid-battle%2F&text=Walgreens%20goal%20is%20to%20collect%20an%20additional%20300%20tons%20of%20%E2%80%9Cunwanted%20medications%E2%80%9D%20in%20the%20next%20two%20years" target="_blank">Walgreens
goal is to collect an additional 300 tons of “unwanted medications” in the next two years</a> . Already,
<a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fbrucejapsen%2F2017%2F10%2F04%2Fwalgreens-expands-drug-disposal-to-1500-stores-in-opioid-battle%2F&text=Walgreens%20600%20safe%20medication%20disposal%20kiosks%20have%20collected%20155%20tons%20of%20unwanted%20medications%20in%20the%20first%20year" target="_blank">
Walgreens 600 safe medication disposal kiosks have collected 155 tons of unwanted medications in the first year</a> and a half of the program.<o:p></o:p></p>
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