GV Newsletter 10-16 web
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
MAKING A difference<br />
GOT DRUGS?<br />
NATIONAL PRESCRIPTION<br />
DRUG TAKE BACK DAY<br />
Saturday, October 22, 20<strong>16</strong><br />
<strong>10</strong> a.m.-2 p.m. at City Hall<br />
On Saturday, October 22, 20<strong>16</strong>, The<br />
Drug Enforcement Administration<br />
(DEA) will coordinate a collaborative<br />
effort with the Greenwood Village<br />
Police Department and other local law<br />
enforcement agencies to remove<br />
potentially dangerous controlled<br />
substances from every household’s<br />
medicine cabinets. Collection activities<br />
will take place from <strong>10</strong> a.m. through 2<br />
p.m. at Greenwood Village City Hall<br />
parking lot, 6060 South Quebec<br />
Street. Police Officers will be available<br />
in the parking lot at City Hall so<br />
citizens can simply drive up and drop<br />
off their unused prescription drugs.<br />
The National Take-Back Day provides<br />
an opportunity for the public to<br />
surrender expired, unwanted, or<br />
unused pharmaceutical controlled<br />
substances and other medications for<br />
destruction. These drugs are a<br />
potential source of supply for illegal<br />
use and an unacceptable risk to public<br />
health and safety.<br />
Here are some guidelines for this oneday<br />
effort intended to bring national<br />
focus to the issue of increasing<br />
pharmaceutical controlled substance<br />
abuse.<br />
• The program is anonymous.<br />
• Controlled, non-controlled, and<br />
over the counter substances may be<br />
dropped off.<br />
• All solid dosage pharmaceutical<br />
product and liquids in consumer<br />
containers, with the exception of<br />
chemotherapy drugs, may be<br />
accepted.<br />
• Liquid products, such as cough<br />
syrup, should remain sealed in their<br />
original container.<br />
• Prescription and over the counter<br />
solid dosage medications, e.g.<br />
tablets and capsules will be<br />
accepted.<br />
• Intravenous solutions, injectables,<br />
GOVERNMENT<br />
and syringes/needles will not be<br />
accepted due to potential hazard<br />
posed by blood-borne pathogens.<br />
• Illicit substances such as marijuana<br />
or methamphetamine are not a part<br />
of this initiative, but can be dropped<br />
off at the Police Department at any<br />
time for disposal.<br />
For more information, please call<br />
the Police Department at<br />
303-773-2525. <strong>GV</strong><br />
OCTOBER 20<strong>16</strong> | <strong>GV</strong> NEWSLETTER PG. 7
Change language