Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Both events will be held at the O'Donnell Middle School parking lot on Saturday.
Have any old, unused medication in your medicine cabinet? OASIS (Organizing Against Substances in Stoughton) will be holding its own Prescription Drug Take-Back event this Saturday, Oct. 20 at the O'Donnell Middle School parking lot from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. “Proper disposal of prescription drugs is better for the environment and helps prevent ecological harm,” Stoughton parent Todd Brown, a Clinical Instructor and Vice Chair of Northeastern University’s Department of Pharmacy Practice, wrote in an email. “Unused prescriptions should be discarded and not left in the home,” Brown continued. “This prevents accidental ingestion by children, the elderly or pets. It also helps reduce teenage drug abuse by decreasing access to prescription …
Friday, September 28, 2012
A National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day is scheduled for Saturday, September 29, and while Stoughton is not hosting an official take-back event, the Police Station has a container where residents can properly dispose of prescriptions.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has scheduled another prescription drug take-back day for Saturday, Sept. 29, and while Stoughton will not be hosting an official take-back event, there is a location in town where residents can properly dispose of prescriptions 24/7/365—the Stoughton Police Station. There is a secure prescription drug collection container that can be found in the lobby of the Stoughton Police headquarters on Rose St. Residents can dispose of these unwanted or expired prescription drugs at the police station—no questions asked. With the Food and Drug Administration recommending against flushing unused medicine down the toilet or disposing of it in household trash, for environmental and other reasons, these …
Friday, April 27, 2012
A prescription drug take-back day is scheduled for Saturday, April 28, and while Stoughton is not hosting an official take-back event, the Police Station has a container where residents can properly dispose of prescriptions.
The Drug Enforcement Administration has scheduled another prescription drug take-back day for Saturday April 28, and while Stoughton will not be hosting an official take-back event like the town did this past fall, there is a location in town where residents can properly dispose of prescriptions 24/7/365—the Stoughton Police Station. There is a secure prescription drug collection container that can be found in the lobby of the Stoughton Police headquarters on Rose St. Residents can dispose of these unwanted or expired prescription drugs at the police station—no questions asked. With the Food and Drug Administration recommending against flushing unused medicine down the toilet or disposing of it in household trash, for environmental and …
Monday, March 26, 2012
You can bring your unused medications to the police station, where it can now be properly disposed. No questions asked.
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Monday, March 26, 2012
Hello, my name is Karen Hall and I wanted to introduce myself. Some of you know me as the Youth Commission Director and some of you know me as the Council on Aging Director (I wear many hats). A select few also know me as MOM. My third (tenth) hat is co-chair of the O.A.S.I.S. community coalition. As you get to know and hear the many different voices of O.A.S.I.S. you see we each bring something unique to the coalition and to Stoughton. In both aspects of my work I see people doing amazing things: working, volunteering, taking care of family (both young and wise) cleaning off cars in October. In our mad rush we sometimes have projects that we never get to or forget about on a regular basis. My goal for this piece to remind you to …
Stephanie Patton
10:27 am on Friday, October 19, 2012
Fall clean up? Clean out your expired medications and bring them to the Drug Take Back on Saturday morning for proper disposal! more ›