{"id":85064,"date":"2013-10-22T00:12:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T04:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=85064"},"modified":"2015-12-14T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T16:29:07","slug":"rx-take-back-at-uconn-health-center-oct-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2013\/10\/rx-take-back-at-uconn-health-center-oct-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Rx Take Back at UConn Health Center Oct. 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66439\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/120929-takeback-UConn-nursing-student.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66439 img-responsive lazyload\" alt=\"A nursing student carries containers of prescription drugs. (Photo provided by John Dobbins)\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/120929-takeback-UConn-nursing-student-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/120929-takeback-UConn-nursing-student-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/120929-takeback-UConn-nursing-student-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/120929-takeback-UConn-nursing-student-75x100.jpg 75w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/120929-takeback-UConn-nursing-student.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nursing student carries containers of prescription drugs at last year&#039;s drug take back day at the UConn Health Center. (Photo provided by John Dobbins)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Once again this year, the UConn Health Center is taking part in National Prescription Drug Take Back Day by holding a <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/13takeback\">free drive-thru collection<\/a> <b>Saturday, Oct. 26<\/b>, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the academic entrance of the main building.<\/p>\n<p>Medication in many different forms will be accepted, no questions asked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prescription drugs that have expired or are no longer needed<\/li>\n<li>Over-the-counter drugs that have expired or are no longer needed<\/li>\n<li>Medications from deceased family members<\/li>\n<li>Veterinary medicines<\/li>\n<li>Ointments and creams<\/li>\n<li>Inhalers<\/li>\n<li>Vitamins and supplements<\/li>\n<li>Unknown tablets or capsules<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Needles, medical waste or thermometers will not be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever possible, medications should be in their original container. Personal information on the label should be crossed out with a permanent marker.<\/p>\n<p>Greeters will perform a brief survey of non-identifiable information for academic purposes. More information is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/13takeback\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/13takeback<\/a> or by calling 860-679-7627.<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/117024461&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;166&#8243; iframe=&#8221;true&#8221; \/]<\/p>\n<p>Collections are held across the country with the intention of keeping drugs out of the water supply and away from anyone other than their intended user.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, UConn Health Center pharmacists, pharmacy students, nursing students, UConn staff and campus police collected 12,104 doses of controlled substances and 509 pounds of non-controlled substances for proper disposal.<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr align=\"left\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"1\" width=\"640\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>Follow the <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchc.edu\/\"><i>UConn Health Center<\/i><\/a><i> on <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uconnhealthcenter\"><i>Facebook<\/i><\/a><i>, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uconnhealth\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i> and <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/uconnhealth\"><i>YouTube<\/i><\/a><i>. <\/i> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn pharmacists, pharmacy students, nursing students and other staff will collect expired or otherwise no-longer-needed medications for proper disposal Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":85065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[57,2010],"class_list":["post-85064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 07:45:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85064"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107189,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85064\/revisions\/107189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/85065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85064"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=85064"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=85064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}