{"id":171304,"date":"2026-04-20T23:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171304\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T23:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:57:23","slug":"dispose-of-your-expired-medicine-with-erie-police-at-take-back-event-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171304\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispose of your expired medicine with Erie police at take-back event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erie is hosting a medicine disposal event to offer people a chance to safely dispose of unwanted or unneeded medications.<\/p>\n<p>People can take their medicines and drugs to the Erie Police Department at 1000 Telleen Avenue between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erieco.gov\/1336\/Medication-Take-Back\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erie police news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>People can bring their unused or expired medicines, including controlled substances, over-the-counter meds, pet medications, and even liquids, with no questions asked, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis event offers a secure, no-questions-asked way to dispose of unwanted or expired prescription medications, helping keep them out of the wrong hands and protecting our waterways,\u201d the release states. \u201cIt\u2019s a small step that makes a big difference in keeping our community safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie is hosting a medicine disposal event to offer people a chance to safely dispose of unwanted or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1676,7250,136,138,137,1677,1057,241,182,139,1680],"class_list":["post-171304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-news","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-front-range","tag-health","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-weld-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}