![]() Jeri Williams Jefe de la Policía |
Departamento de Policía de Oxnard
R. Jason Benites De Scott Whitney |
OXNARD DEPARTAMENTO DE POLICÍA
COMUNICADO DE PRENSA
EVENTO: | Oxnard Police Department taking back unwanted prescription drugs, multiple locations |
FECHA / HORA: | 10/26/13 / 10:00am-2:00pm |
UBICACIÓN: |
OXNARD POLICE DEPARTMENT – 251 Sur C Street CVS PHARMACY – 551 Sur Ventura carretera KAISER PERMANENTE – 2200 Camino del este de Gonzáles |
PREPARADO POR: | Miguel Lopez, Director de Asuntos de la Comunidad, [email protected] |
PERSONA DE CONTACTO & INFORMACIÓN DE CONTACTO: |
Andrew Salinas, Comandante, [email protected] |
DETALLES: En octubre 26 desde 10 a.m. a 2 p.m. el Departamento de Policía de Oxnard y la Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public its seventh opportunity in three years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
In an effort to provide additional locations throughout the City of Oxnard, the Oxnard Police Department has joined forces with CVS and Kaiser Permanente. Bring your medications for disposal to the Oxnard Police Department ( 251 Sur C Street), CVS Pharmacy (551 Sur Ventura carretera), Kaiser Permanente (2200 Camino del este de Gonzáles).
Oxnard Police will be on-site at all three locations. The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked. During the last three years, the Oxnard Police Department has collected over three (3) tons of prescription drugs.
Last April, Americans turned in 371 montones (encima 742,000 libras) of prescription drugs at over 5,800 sites operated by the DEA and its thousands of state and local law enforcement partners. In its six previous Take Back events, DEA and its partners took in over 2.8 million pounds—more than 1,400 tons—of pills.
Esta iniciativa aborda un tema vital para la seguridad pública y la salud pública. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Las tasas de abuso de medicamentos recetados en el U.S. are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet. en adición, Americans are now advised that their usual methods for disposing of unused medicines—flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash—both pose potential safety and health hazards.
DEA is in the process of approving new regulations that implement the Safe and Responsible Drug Disposal Act of 2010, which amends the Controlled Substances Act to allow an “ultimate user” (that is, a patient or pet or their family member or owner) medicamentos de sustancias controladas para deshacerse de ellos por su entrega a las entidades autorizadas por el Ministerio Público a aceptarlos. The Act also allows the Attorney General to authorize long term care facilities to dispose of their residents’ controlled substances in certain instances.