{"id":29146,"date":"2021-11-18T12:53:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T17:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/?p=29146"},"modified":"2021-11-18T12:53:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T17:53:15","slug":"orleans-county-21st-annual-national-prescription-take-back-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/orleans-county-21st-annual-national-prescription-take-back-results\/","title":{"rendered":"ORLEANS COUNTY\/21st Annual National Prescription Take-Back results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Press release<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday, November 18, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On October 23, 2021, The Orleans County Sheriff\u2019s Office participated in the 21st Annual National Prescription Take-Back Day. This event was held at the Orleans County Public Safety Building with personnel from the; Criminal Division and the Corrections Division of the Orleans County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The collection site took in 570.2 Lbs. of unused prescription medications and 319 Lbs. of sharps for a total combined weight of 890 Lbs. The Orleans County Sheriff\u2019s Office has participated in the National Prescription Take-Back Day since 2012 and has collected a total weight of 10,695.5 Lbs. (5.3 Tons) of prescription medications and sharps. This event is very successful for Orleans County with an average of 563 Lbs. of unused medications and sharps collected for each event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York State had 116 Law Enforcement Agencies participate and took in over 28,947 Lbs. of unused medications during the October event. On a national level 744,082 (372 tons) were collected. The combined total weight for all events since the start of this program is over 15 Million pounds of unused medications collected nationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Prescription Take-Back Day is a very important community service that allows the residents of Orleans County the means to safely, dispose of unused medication and Sharps. This event helps prevent ground water contamination due to improper disposal and assists with preventing illegal diversion of medications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Orleans County Sheriff\u2019s Office would like to thank all of the community partners that assisted with coordinating the event. The Orleans and Erie County Public Health Departments, Genesee\/Orleans Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (GCASA) and Drug Enforcement Administration\u2019s Diversion Control Unit all played important roles in making this program a success in Orleans County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press release Thursday, November 18, 2021 On October 23, 2021, The Orleans County Sheriff\u2019s Office participated in the 21st Annual National Prescription Take-Back Day. This event was held at the Orleans County Public Safety Building with personnel from the; Criminal Division and the Corrections Division of the Orleans County Sheriff\u2019s \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/orleans-county-21st-annual-national-prescription-take-back-results\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[2849,1322],"class_list":["post-29146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orleans-county","category-uncategorized","tag-drug-take-back-results","tag-orleans-county-sheriffs-department"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eTP4-7A6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41820,"url":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2023\/04\/25\/orleans-county-sheriffs-department-drug-take-back-2023-results\/","url_meta":{"origin":29146,"position":0},"title":"ORLEANS COUNTY\/ Sheriff&#8217;s Department Drug Take Back 2023 results","author":"aka","date":"April 25, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Press release\/provided photo On April 22, 2023, the Orleans County Sheriff\u2019s Office once again participated in the National Prescription Take-Back Event that was sponsored by the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration. 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