{"id":24519,"date":"2022-04-27T11:38:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T15:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/?p=24519"},"modified":"2022-04-27T11:45:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T15:45:05","slug":"maryland-state-police-to-participate-in-national-drug-take-back-day-on-april-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2022\/04\/27\/maryland-state-police-to-participate-in-national-drug-take-back-day-on-april-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Police To Participate In National Drug Take Back Day On April 30"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(PIKESVILLE, MD) \u00a0\u2014 The Maryland State Police, in partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration, are asking citizens to dispose of unwanted prescription drugs during the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, April 30, 2022 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at state police barracks.<\/p>\n

State police barracks throughout Maryland will be participating in the National Drug Take Back Day.\u00a0 Each barrack will act as a collection station giving citizens an opportunity to dispose of all unwanted and unused prescription drugs.\u00a0 The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while also educating the general public about the potential for abuse of medications.<\/p>\n

Second only to marijuana, non-medical prescription drugs are the most commonly used drug in the country.\u00a0 According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the majority of teenagers abusing prescription drugs are finding an unlimited supply in their family\u2019s medicine cabinet.<\/p>\n

At the last Take Back Day event in October 2021, Maryland State Police collected more than 830 pounds of unwanted and unused prescriptions medications. This included 194.6 pounds from the Frederick Barrack, 108.35 pounds from the Westminster Barrack and 52.25 pounds the Waterloo Barrack. The state of Maryland had 33\u00a0law enforcement participants\u200b, 105\u00a0collection sites and collected\u00a0<\/strong>10,349\u00a0pounds of unwanted medications at the October event.\u00a0 Since 2010, Maryland residents have successfully\u00a0removed 201,337 pounds of unused medications from their homes in an effort to prevent medication misuse and opioid addiction from ever starting\u200b. \u200b<\/p>\n

As part of Maryland\u2019s combined effort to reduce opioid abuse, Maryland State Police barracks across the state have become around-the-clock drop-off locations for unused prescription medications.\u00a0 All 23 Maryland State Police barracks are now equipped with secure drug collection boxes and available around-the-clock for unused medication drop off.\u00a0 No questions will be asked when deposits are made.\u00a0 Citizens can locate the closest Maryland State Police barrack by visiting:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/mdsp.maryland.gov\/Organization\/Pages\/FieldOperationsBureau\/allbarracks.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

The Maryland State Police is a partner in the Opioid Operational Command Center, which facilitates collaboration between state and local public health, human services, education, and public safety entities to combat the heroin and opioid crisis and its deadly impact on Maryland communities. Before It\u2019s Too Late<\/a> is the state\u2019s effort to bring awareness to this epidemic\u2014and to mobilize resources for effective prevention, treatment, and recovery.<\/p>\n

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WHAT:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 National Drug Take Back Initiative<\/p>\n

WHEN:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SATURDAY, April 30, 2022 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/p>\n

WHERE:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Maryland State Police Barracks Statewide<\/p>\n

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CONTACT: Office of Media Communication, msp.media@maryland.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(PIKESVILLE, MD) \u00a0\u2014 The Maryland State Police, in partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration, are asking citizens to dispose of unwanted prescription drugs during the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, April 30, 2022 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at state police barracks. State police barracks throughout Maryland will be participating in the National  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24528,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24519\/revisions\/24528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}