{"id":29518,"date":"2014-04-23T02:55:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T06:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=29518"},"modified":"2014-04-21T14:36:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T18:36:11","slug":"ut-student-helps-plan-local-drug-take-back-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/04_23_2014\/ut-student-helps-plan-local-drug-take-back-day","title":{"rendered":"UT student helps plan local Drug Take Back Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got drugs? From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 26, you can safely dispose of unused and expired medications at the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department.<\/p>\n

Drug Take Back Day is part of a national initiative of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The event at the local health department was planned by its intern Andrew Schneider, a second-year PharmD student at UT.<\/p>\n

\"Got<\/a>\u201cBy collecting the meds, we\u2019re preventing children from accidental overdoses, and we\u2019re taking dangerous drugs off the street,\u201d Schneider said.<\/P><\/p>\n

The Health Department is located at 635 North Erie St. in downtown Toledo and will be accepting liquid medications, inhalers, ointments, lotions, narcotics, over-the-counter medications, medication samples and vitamins. It also will accept old mercury thermometers to be disposed of in environmentally friendly ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cImproperly disposing of medications and mercury thermometers can contaminate water and land, so it\u2019s important that people are aware that there is a proper way to dispose of them,\u201d Schneider said.<\/p>\n

The Toledo-Lucas County Health Department can\u2019t take needles, syringes or lancets, according to Schneider, but those items can be put in a hard container labeled \u201csharps\u201d and disposed of in regular trash. The Health Department also cannot take IV bags, hydrogen peroxide, aerosol cans or personal care products.<\/p>\n

Each year the event is run by a second-year PharmD intern with guidance from the third-year intern who planned it the year before. Schneider credits his success in planning this year\u2019s event to the help from Sarah Dickey, the third-year intern, and Evelyn Schreier, the pharmacist who selected him as an intern.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love working at the health department,\u201d Schneider said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a great way to take what I\u2019ve learned in school and apply it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another drug drop-off location will be at UT Medical Center, which is partnering with the UT Police Department for Drug Take Back Day. Medications will be collected from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 26, in the Emergency Department Lobby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Second-year pharmacy doctoral student Andrew Schneider played an integral role organizing the Drug Take Back Day, Saturday, April 26, at the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}