Making the Medicine Cabinet Safer

OHSU helped clean house this past weekend.

OHSU’s Department of Public Safety teamed up with Portland Police and held a medication drop-off event on Saturday to help area residents discard of their old or unwanted prescriptions…and they sure did.

A few fast stats:

  • Weight of all the medications dropped off: 150 lbs
  • That’s about 7 lbs per person who took part in the drop-off
  • Amount: Five biohazard bags (see photo below).

 

 

All the collected prescription drugs will be safely disposed by the federal Drug Enforcement Agency.

The medication drop-off event was also co-sponsored by the OHSU Pharmacy and the Oregon Poison Center at OHSU.

 

 

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Posted by: Jim Newman in Outreach, Uncategorized
On: Wednesday, November 2, 2011

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Jim Newman

I am the Associate Director for Media Relations in the Oregon Health & Science University Office of Strategic Communications (Now say that three times fast)

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