{"id":8127,"date":"2015-06-26T21:02:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T21:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/?p=8127"},"modified":"2015-06-26T21:04:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T21:04:05","slug":"drug-take-back-event-at-benton-county-fairgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2015\/06\/26\/drug-take-back-event-at-benton-county-fairgrounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Take Back Event at Benton County Fairgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">The Benton County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has partnered with the Philomath Police Department, Benton County Fairgrounds, and the Benton County Health Department to offer a Drug Take Back Event <strong>this Saturday, June 27th\u00a0<\/strong>from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/06\/prescription-drugs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-8133 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/06\/prescription-drugs-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"prescription-drugs\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2015\/06\/prescription-drugs-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2015\/06\/prescription-drugs.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The event is targeted to prevent the misuse of prescription drugs as well as to help keep the drugs from contaminating our drinking water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Things that should be brought include expired or unwanted prescription medications for you, your family or pets, unneeded over-the-counter medications, medicine from deceased family members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">If possible, please leave medicines in their original containers. You can use a black permanent marker to conceal any personal information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Please\u00a0<strong>DO NOT<\/strong> bring: needles, lancets or sharps of any kind including EpiPens; thermometers or other mercury products; intra-venous solutions or injectables; electronic glucose monitors; medical or hazardous waste of any kind; or illegal drugs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Medications can be accepted from households only. The event will not accept any medications from institutions such as nursing homes, doctor&#8217;s offices, veterinary clinics, foster homes or any other business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">More information about the event is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.benton.or.us\/sheriff\/enforcement\/drug_take_back_event.php#Benton\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Benton County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has partnered with the Philomath Police Department, Benton County Fairgrounds, and the Benton County Health Department to offer a Drug Take Back Event this Saturday, June 27th\u00a0from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event is targeted to prevent the misuse of prescription drugs as well as to help keep the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6872,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292116,1292117,607472,1],"tags":[707757,747,608247],"class_list":["post-8127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-sustainability","category-community-sustainability","category-events-outreach","category-uncategorized","tag-drug-take-back","tag-event","tag-waste-reduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6872"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8137,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions\/8137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}