{"id":17748,"date":"2025-10-23T16:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/17748\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:50:12","slug":"texas-tech-health-sciences-center-to-host-medication-cleanout-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/17748\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech Health Sciences Center to host medication cleanout Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Amarillo will host a Medication Cleanout event this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Area residents can drop off expired, unused or unnecessary medications at the drive-thru event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Residents can remain in their cars while volunteers collect the medications for safe disposal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Medication Cleanout event will take place Oct. 25 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy, 1300 S. Coulter St. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Medications from clinics, pharmacies, or businesses will not be accepted at the event due to environmental restrictions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Organizers say the Medication Cleanout program was developed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poisoncontrol.org\/about-us\/texas-panhandle-poison-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.poisoncontrol.org\/about-us\/texas-panhandle-poison-center\/\">Texas Panhandle Poison Center<\/a>, which serves 71 counties across the Panhandle, South Plains, and other nearby areas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The TPPC operates a 24-hour hotline at 1-800-222-1222.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KFDA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Amarillo will host a Medication Cleanout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13773,2648,13771,10879,168,170,169,13770,13769,13772,10883],"class_list":{"0":"post-17748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-1300-s-coulter","9":"tag-amarillo","10":"tag-drop-off","11":"tag-expired","12":"tag-lubbock","13":"tag-lubbock-headlines","14":"tag-lubbock-news","15":"tag-medication-cleanout","16":"tag-texas-tech-university-health-sciences-center","17":"tag-unnecessary","18":"tag-unused"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}