{"id":313504,"date":"2026-10-24T17:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T17:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313504\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T17:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T17:42:10","slug":"erie-police-participates-in-prescription-drug-take-back-day-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313504\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Police Participates in Prescription Drug Take-Back Day | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in Erie had an opportunity to safely dispose of expired or unwanted prescription medications during National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"drug.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The Erie Police Department partnered with UPMC for the event, which took place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Erie City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to medication drop-offs, free naloxone and drug disposal kits were available. Officials emphasized the importance of keeping unused prescriptions out of the home to help prevent misuse and accidental overdoses.<\/p>\n<p>Other drop-off locations across the region included the VA Medical Center and the Millcreek Township Building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People in Erie had an opportunity to safely dispose of expired or unwanted prescription medications during National Prescription&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[38332,128032,136,138,137,7248,78768,42747,40670,127643,124207,1785],"class_list":["post-313504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-community-safety","tag-drug-misuse-prevention","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-police-department","tag-medication-disposal","tag-naloxone","tag-overdose-prevention","tag-prescription-drug-take-back","tag-public-health-event","tag-upmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313504","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=313504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}