From Harford County government:
Harford County’s Office of Drug Control Policy, in partnership with Aberdeen Proving Ground, is helping to distribute 10,000 free Deterra Rx pouches for citizens to safely dispose of their unused prescription medications. The pouches contain a water-soluble inner pod containing active carbon. When filled with warm water, the inner pod dissolves, the carbon is released and medication placed in the pouch is rendered inert and irretrievable. The pouches are among 100,000 Deterra Rx drug deactivation systems donated to APG in April by defense contractor Leidos for distribution statewide. Joseph Ryan, manager of the Harford County Office of Drug Control Policy, recently delivered 2,500 of the pouches to Klein’s ShopRite pharmacies where they will be made available to customers free of charge.
“We know that four out of five heroin users started with the misuse and abuse of prescription drugs, and the innovative Deterra Rx systems will encourage citizens to remove these medications from their homes,” said Harford County Executive Barry Glassman. “I would like to thank MG Randy Taylor of Aberdeen Proving Ground and Klein’s ShopRite for their partnership, and thank Leidos for their generosity in purchasing the pouches to help fight the opioid crisis.”
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Harford County’s Office of Drug Control Policy has also distributed Deterra Rx pouches to the local Health Department, local police departments, and professionals attending local training on substance abuse issues.
Citizens who participated in Drug Take Back Day on April 28 in Bel Air also received complimentary pouches. Harford County collected a total of 1,475 pounds of unused medications that day including collection sites at the Harford County administration building in Bel Air, the Havre de Grace Police Department and the Maryland State Police Barrack D – Bel Air.
Harford County has six permanent drop-off boxes for safe disposal of drugs, no questions asked. A list of locations is available on the county website at http://www.harfordcountymd.gov/1951/Prescription-Drug-Take-Back.
The opioid crisis is still thriving throughout Maryland and the US. The pill mills are still cranking out medications in pain management programs and their patients are still selling the pills to the public for huge profits. While people who can and do work for a living, see their health insurance costs rising to pay for the profits these “patients” are leeching from everyone else. I see it everyday, by the same people and they claim they are actually being warned by their “buddies on the Task Force”. Doctors are prescribing amounts that would kill a horse, to an average size man and don’t see the problem because of the dollar signs blocking their view. I find it incredible that Doctors don’t know they are being scammed.
Smart doctors do know they are being scammed which sends the addicted to the Doctors who don’t mind collect huge sums of money for a 30 second office visit for a oxy script. After that goes bad then it’s pills on the street or off to the heroin dealer.
I’m sure you find the new MMJ program at least interesting. A patient can’t get a script for weed until they can prove that “conventional treatments” are no longer effective. Meaning for pain you must at least flirt with an opiod addiction before paying $200 to a churn and burn weed doctor.
The opiod crises will thrive as long as there is political money involved.
Well, that is false. I know people who have MMJ Cards and have not proved “conventional treatments” are not effective. Maybe it’s because they are not using MMJ for pain. Besides, why would a doctor put a patient thru the trauma of opioid addiction before allowing the use of MMJ? It seems it should be the other way around since MMJ isn’t physically addictive. Opioids should be the last resort. I wonder if you can get the opioids and also have a MMJ Card? Never mind, I already know the answer to that question and was being a smart a$$…..
Interesting you say it’s false when in fact if you would just look at the basic application process it is clearly explained. It would suggest the people “you know” lied in the application process. Pain or other you can’t goto the docs and claim PTSD and walk out with a script for weed. Sorry it just doesn’t work that way.
I’m sorry, but no where does it say someone needs to prove “conventional treatments” are not effective. You only have to have one of the qualifying diseases. However, PTSD is treatable with cannabis, but the Maryland Legislature didn’t include it in the statute. It also treats depression and a plethora of other ailments. I’m not trying to start an argument with you, but you can start MMJ without ever using opioids, as long as you have one of the qualifying ailments. That is the law. Yet, why would I pay my enemy to sell me permission to do what they have already persecuted me and thousands of Marylanders for? The government is your enemy and you should not help finance their cause. Anyway, I thought we were talking about opioids?
I hope the people who use pain medication for crippling arthritis and/or other joint/ muscle diseases are not lost in the crush to get heroin off the streets. I have been taking an opioid pain medication for years just so I can get out of bed in the morning. I am not an addict. I don’t take more than I need to function. I do not sell my medications on the street. My doctors are very conservative in the amount of pain medication they prescribe to me.
I am just as concerned as you are about the heroin crisis. But please don’t loose sight of the real need for opioids due to the real suffering of real people. Handicapped people do not need more obstacles to challenge their pain.
Jeff Sessions says you just need to take n aspirin and deal with it.
There are those who need it and those who exploit it for profit. No one denies this. I don’t deny anyone’s claim to use it, but I can’t deny what I see with my own two eyes either. There is no doubt that since you’ve been taking it so long and need it to function, you’re probably addicted to it as well. However, if the benefits outweigh the harm then there is no reason to deny anyone and it is a personal choice regarding quality of life. No one says or thinks that your use of it to improve the quality of your life is wrong. Quite frankly, I think the only thing that is wrong is someone using the system designed to share healthcare cost, abusing it and using fraud, to make a living or large sums of money off of the fraud. In my mind, fraud is theft and those who do are stealing from everyone who pays in.