{"id":606522,"date":"2026-04-26T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/606522\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T00:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:24:08","slug":"safely-dispose-of-prescription-medication-at-drug-take-back-day-drop-off-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/606522\/","title":{"rendered":"Safely dispose of prescription medication at Drug Take Back Day drop-off sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday is National Drug Take Back Day, which gives people across the country the chance to safely get rid of any expired or unused prescription medication.<\/p>\n<p>The DEA is hosting this event as a way to prevent prescription drug abuse and allow the drugs to be disposed of properly.<\/p>\n<p>The service is free and anonymous and will run from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>All Indiana and Michigan State Police posts will participate in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Other locations will also participate. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.deadiversion.usdoj.gov\/NTBI\/NTBI-PUB.pub;jsessionid=xyDWV_oaylI8HhxGAtCDWX7oA7SjT5JvUmf4O2sa.web1?_flowExecutionKey=_c2374855B-87DA-5877-AA3E-4DBF4065810A_kE7428E3A-0E9A-18F2-5CF7-CC975CEAAB1E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">find the closest take back event near you<\/a> on the DEA&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday is National Drug Take Back Day, which gives people across the country the chance to safely get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[97,243],"class_list":{"0":"post-606522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606522","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=606522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}