BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5004dae078745aca77f82d29ad51827e6673 CATEGORIES:Community Svc SUMMARY:TCF - Drug Take Back Day DESCRIPTION:
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Do you have expired prescriptions in your medicine or kitchen cabinets? What about that prescription you never quite finished, is it in a bathroom vanity drawer or on your bedroom night stand?
On Saturday, April 27 from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Tellico Villa gers will have a chance to turn in their expired and unused prescriptions a t the Welcome Center. Needles, prescription liquids and syringes will not b e accepted.
This first local “Take Back Day” is jointly sponsored by the Tellico Community Foundation along with the Prevention Alliance of Lou don County and Align9. The United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) spon sors the overall event nationally. Last fall, Americans turned in nearly 46 0 tons (more than 900,000 pounds) of prescription drugs at more than 5,800 DEA sponsored sites.
The objective of the event is to provide a safe , convenient location to dispose of opioids and other medications and to ra ise awareness about the potential risks of abusing drugs.
Residents w ill also be receiving information from “Count it! Lock it! Drop it!” which is an initiative funded in part by the BlueCross Blue Shield of Tennessee H ealth Foundation that works to empower and educate individuals on how they can prevent prescription drug misuse.
Villagers can drop off their u nwanted drugs at the Welcome Center at 202 Chota Road. The take back activi ty will be supervised by local law enforcement officials. Representatives f rom the Tellico Village Lions Club will be on hand to retrieve the discarde d pill bottles. The Lions club removed the labels, so you don't have to. Th e Lions Club has been engaged in recovering plastic containers used to stor e medical type products, vitamins and OTC drugs. The collected containers a re then sent to an organization in Ohio which repurposes them for prescript ion use in third world countries.
Additional background on the Telli co Community Foundation can be found at: https://www.tellicolife.org/tellico-commun ity-foundation. For more information on Take Back Day visit: https://www.dead iversion.usdoj.gov/drug_disposal/takeback/. The link for the “Count it! Lock it! Drop it!” initiative is: https://countitlockitdropit.org/. Information on Align9 can be acces sed at: http://www.align9.org.