{"id":65024,"date":"2025-11-25T23:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/65024\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T23:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:00:24","slug":"north-texas-medical-city-hospitals-collected-over-1500-pounds-of-unused-medication-in-annual-drug-take-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/65024\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas Medical City hospitals collected over 1,500 pounds of unused medication in annual drug take back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalcityhealthcare.com\/specialties\/emergency-care?gclsrc=aw.ds&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=COER_ER_Dallas_NTX_NONE_NONE_CONV_PHM_BRF&amp;utm_term=medical+city+healthcare+hospital&amp;utm_content=Medical+City+Branded_Exact&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=22449430775&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiAoZDJBhC0ARIsAERP-F8aqAY_Ap1swKt_of6kyK-aOk_dHsi37di13AXhUw1Nwqxap_AdOlQaAv2wEALw_wcB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Medical City Healthcare<\/a> officials and local law enforcement agencies recovered over 1,500 pounds of unused medication in Dallas-Fort Worth as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dea.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drug Enforcement Administration&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dea.gov\/takebackday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Prescription Drug Take Back Day<\/a> on Oct. 25, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalcityhealthcare.com\/about-us\/newsroom\/medical-city-and-police-collect-1500-lbs-of-meds-in-2025-dea-take-back-events\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news release<\/a> from the hospital system.<\/p>\n<p>Medical City hospitals in Arlington, Dallas, Decatur, Denton, Frisco and McKinney participated and accepted unused prescription and over-the-counter medications.<\/p>\n<p>By the numbers<\/p>\n<p>McKinney led the area in drug returns, with 644 pounds of unused medication returned to Medical City McKinney at the city&#8217;s police department, according to data from the hospital system. Collections for other participating hospitals took place at the respective hospital sites.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764111624_864_thumbnail.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\"\/>The Medical City system has collected over 108,000 pounds of medication since launching its \u201cCrush the Crisis&#8221; program in 2019, which also aims to safely dispose of unused medication to prevent misuse, according to Medical City\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcahealthcare.com\/campaigns\/crush-the-crisis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Medical City Healthcare launched the program to combat drug abuse. North Texans can return unused medication for free year-round at 15 Medical City hospitals, including:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Medical City Healthcare officials and local law enforcement agencies recovered over 1,500 pounds of unused medication in Dallas-Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[102,33884,1313,6917,2530,240,1562,1247,33883,160,162,161,10882],"class_list":["post-65024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-dallas","tag-decatur","tag-denton","tag-dfw","tag-drugs","tag-frisco","tag-health-care","tag-mckinney","tag-medication","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-take-back-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65024","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=65024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}