{"id":8563,"date":"2012-04-26T15:30:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T19:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=8563"},"modified":"2012-04-26T15:30:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T19:30:57","slug":"drug-take-back-day-sat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=8563","title":{"rendered":"Drug Take Back-Day, Sat."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/drugs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8579\" style=\"border: 2px solid navy; margin: 4px;\" title=\"drugs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/drugs-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a>Get ready to ditch those unwanted drugs safely, keeping them from entering our water supply or ending up in the hands of potential abusers.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday is the Fourth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Kennett Square police will accept unwanted, expired, and unused prescription drugs with no questions asked at the station, 115 N. Broad St. in Kennett Square. Other area disposal sites include the state police Avondale barracks, 2 Moxley Lane, in London Grove Township, and the Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department, 1580 Paoli Pike in West Chester.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During the last Take-Back Day in October, Americans turned in more than 188 tons of medication, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. It&#8217;s a response the agency would like to repeat on Saturday. \u201cThe amount of prescription drugs turned in by the American public during the past three Take-Back Day events speaks volumes about the need to develop a convenient way to rid homes of unwanted or expired prescription drugs,\u201d said DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart in a news release. \u201cDEA remains hard at work to establish just such a drug disposal process, and will continue to offer take-back opportunities until the proper regulations are in place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready to ditch those unwanted drugs safely, keeping them from entering our water supply or ending up in the hands of potential abusers. Saturday is the Fourth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Kennett Square police will accept unwanted, expired, and unused prescription drugs with no questions asked at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,924],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}