TAMPA, Fla. — The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office and partnering agencies collected astir 1,300 pounds of medicine successful full during the Operation Medicine Cabinet lawsuit today.
Operation Medicine Cabinet aims to amended the nationalist connected harmless medicine disposal to forestall children from inadvertently ingesting medications and to rise consciousness astir medicine cause misuse.
Old prescriptions that are near lying astir the location tin often beryllium a convenient root for those who are considering utilizing medicine drugs inappropriately. They tin besides beryllium unsafe for pets oregon kids who mightiness inadvertently devour them.
Approximately 60,000 trips to exigency rooms and 450, 000 calls to poison power centers hap each year due to the fact that of young children nether the property of six taking medicine without a liable adult's supervision.
For aged persons who whitethorn beryllium taking galore prescriptions, they mightiness besides beryllium confusing.
Drop-off containers wrong the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office Administration
Building (Largo) and the North District Station (Dunedin) are unfastened year-round.
The champion attack to get escaped of the bulk of unused oregon expired medications (both medicine and OTC) is to driblet them disconnected close distant astatine a cause take-back facility, site, oregon program. Some pharmacies person mail-back programs and different options to assistance you dispose of unneeded oregon expired medications properly.
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