{"id":887884,"date":"2026-10-19T16:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/887884\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:30:10","slug":"novant-hosts-medication-disposal-drive-thru-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/887884\/","title":{"rendered":"Novant hosts medication disposal drive-thru on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1837\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/medicinebottle-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-404512\" style=\"width:697px;height:auto\"  \/>To throw away expired or unused medications properly, Novant has a disposal drive-thru planned for Saturday, Oct. 24. (Courtesy Pexels)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WILMINGTON \u2014 To throw away expired or unused medications properly, Novant has a disposal drive-thru planned for Saturday, Oct. 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at two locations in town:<\/p>\n<p>Novant Health New Hanover Medical Plaza, 2243 South 17th St., Wilmington<\/p>\n<p>Novant Health\u00a0Scotts\u00a0Hill\u00a0Outpatient Surgery Center, 9104 Market St., Wilmington<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event provides a good time to clean out the medicine cabinet and prepare for safe disposal of meds. Novant Health will accept all medications, syringes, and e-cigarette and vaping devices with batteries removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Port City Daily, we aim to keep locals informed on top-of-mind news facing the tri-county region. To support our work and help us reach more people in 2026, please, consider helping one of two ways: Subscribe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/my.portcitydaily.com\/plan\/subscribe\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0or make a one-time contribution\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/my.portcitydaily.com\/cmc\/contribute\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We appreciate your ongoing support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To throw away expired or unused medications properly, Novant has a disposal drive-thru planned for Saturday, Oct. 24.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[97,243],"class_list":["post-887884","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\/887884","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=887884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}