{"id":246731,"date":"2025-10-23T18:42:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/246731\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T18:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:42:21","slug":"national-drug-take-back-day-is-oct-25-here-are-the-dropoff-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/246731\/","title":{"rendered":"National Drug Take Back Day is Oct. 25; here are the dropoff locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday is National Drug Take Back Day, a twice-yearly event where you&#8217;re encouraged to dispose of unused medications safely.<\/p>\n<p>University Hospitals and the Cleveland Clinic are partnering to offer multiple locations where you can drop off medications.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uhhospitals.org\/services\/pharmacy-services\/services\/national-prescription-drug-take-back-day-at-university-hospitals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CLICK HERE<\/a> for University Hospitals drop-off locations.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/departments\/pharmacy\/locations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CLICK HERE<\/a> for Cleveland Clinic drop-off locations.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, you can drop medication off at police departments across the area. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dea.gov\/takebackday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CLICK HERE<\/a> for locations.<\/p>\n<p>According to UH, since the event started back in 2010, nearly 20 million pounds of prescription drugs have been collected nationwide by the DEA.<\/p>\n<p>We Follow Through<\/p>\n<p>Want us to continue to follow through on a story? Let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Saturday is National Drug Take Back Day, a twice-yearly event where you&#8217;re encouraged to dispose of unused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[97,243,10336,10337],"class_list":{"0":"post-246731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-news5cleveland","11":"tag-northeast-ohio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}