{"id":30712,"date":"2014-08-19T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=30712"},"modified":"2020-10-21T14:32:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T18:32:44","slug":"ut-partners-with-toledo-police-to-collect-unwanted-prescriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/08_19_2014\/ut-partners-with-toledo-police-to-collect-unwanted-prescriptions","title":{"rendered":"UT partners with Toledo Police to collect unwanted prescriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Toledo is partnering with the Toledo Police Department to help citizens dispose of unwanted prescriptions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Drug-Box-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Drug-Box-2.jpg\" alt=\"Drug Box 2\" width=\"360\" height=\"315\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Drug-Box-2.jpg 360w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Drug-Box-2-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>Toledo Police will announce the launch of its Unwanted Prescription Drop-Off Box Program Wednesday, Aug. 20, at 10:30 a.m. in front of the Scott Park District Station.<\/p>\n<p>The program has five drop-off boxes throughout the city with two of those located on UT campuses. The locations are:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Toledo Police Safety Building, 525 N. Erie St.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Toledo Police Scott Park Station, 2301 Nebraska Ave.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Toledo Police Northwest Station, 2330 W. Sylvania Ave.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The UT Police Station in the Transportation Center on Main Campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The UT Medical Center Emergency Room on Health Science Campus.<\/p>\n<p>The boxes provide a safe, convenient and responsible means of disposing of unwanted pharmaceuticals before they are used illegally or contaminate landfills. <\/p>\n<p>Any solid pharmaceuticals such as pills, capsules, patches and pet medications can be dropped off. Aerosol cans, inhalers, syringes, ointments and liquids will not be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Toledo Police Department and The University of Toledo, partners on the initiative are the Lucas County Coroner\u2019s Office, Keep Toledo Lucas County Beautiful, Toledo-Lucas County Health Department, National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators and CVS Pharmacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UT and the Toledo Police Department are making it easy to dispose of unwanted and outdated prescriptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,7,63],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30712"}],"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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61710,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30712\/revisions\/61710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}