ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Wegmans Food Markets is partnering with section instrumentality enforcement agencies crossed 7 states to big assemblage medicine medicine drop-off events astatine 42 stores connected Saturday, October 29. The lawsuit gives assemblage members the accidental to region perchance unsafe expired, unused, and unwanted medicine drugs from their homes. The work is escaped and anonymous, with nary questions asked.
Prescription medications play an important relation successful the wellness of millions of Americans, but unused and expired medications that stay successful homes tin airs important nationalist wellness and information concerns owed to their precocious susceptibility to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of medicine cause maltreatment successful the U.S. are alarmingly high, arsenic are the fig of accidental poisonings and overdoses. Studies amusement that much than fractional of each radical who archetypal misuse medicine drugs get them from their friends, relatives, oregon instrumentality them without asking.
Prescription medicine drop-off events astatine participating Wegmans Food Markets. Only pills and patches volition beryllium accepted, nary liquids, needles, oregon sharps connected Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Participating Rochester Wegmans stores:
Brockport, Calkins Road, Chili-Paul, Holt Road, Irondequoit, Lyell Ave, Mt. Read, Penfield
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