{"id":604106,"date":"2026-04-24T18:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/604106\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:21:10","slug":"national-prescription-drug-take-back-day-events-taking-place-in-rochester-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/604106\/","title":{"rendered":"National Prescription Drug Take Back Day events taking place in Rochester region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 Several local police departments, grocery stores and organizations are encouraging people to safely dispose of expired or unused medications this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday is the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration&#8217;s 30th annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.<\/p>\n<p>The nationwide effort promotes public health and safety while preventing environmental pollution and drug abuse.<\/p>\n<p>All takeback events run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All local Tops Supermarket locations are holding events, as well as the following Wegmans locations:<\/p>\n<p>745 Calkins Road, Henrietta3175 Chili Avenue, Chili900 Holt Road, Webster525 Titus Avenue, Irondequoit2301 Lyell Avenue, Gates2157 Penfield Road, Penfield6600 Pittsford Palmyra Road, Perinton300 Hamilton Street, Geneva<\/p>\n<p>There will also be takeback events at the Brighton Police Department at 2300 Elmwood Avenue and the Webster Justice Court at 1002 Ridge Road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dea.gov\/takebackday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CLICK HERE<\/a> for more information on Drug Take Back Day or to search a list of locations participating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 Several local police departments, grocery stores and organizations are encouraging people to safely dispose of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[97,243],"class_list":["post-604106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604106","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=604106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}