{"id":1355,"date":"2011-10-23T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2011-10-23T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T10:00:05","slug":"unwanted-medication-take-back-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"Unwanted medication take back day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear fellow Hanoverians: <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (D.E.A.) is coordinating, with the<br \/>\nHanover Board of Health and the Hanover Police Department, a<br \/>\nnationwide one-day event to take back unwanted medications on<br \/>\n*Saturday, October 29, 2011 at the Hanover Senior Center, 665 Center<br \/>\nStreet, Hanover, between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.* <\/p>\n<p>This national initiative will provide an opportunity for the public to<br \/>\nsurrender pharmaceutical controlled substances and other medications<br \/>\nto law enforcement officers for destruction. Expired, unused or<br \/>\nunwanted substances in our homes are a potential source of supply for<br \/>\nthe increasing abuse of pharmaceutical drugs in the United States and<br \/>\nan unacceptable risk to public health and safety.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact the Board of Health at (781)<br \/>\n826-4611 or health@hanover-ma.gov<br \/>\n .<\/p>\n<p>For &#8220;Around Town on the Web&#8221;,<br \/>\nCathy H-B<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8220;Around Town on the Web&#8221; (&#8220;ATOTW&#8221;) is a community service that has been<br \/>\nprovided to self-selected residents of the Town of Hanover since the spring<br \/>\nof 2004.<br \/>\nFor submission guidelines and answers to frequently asked questions about<br \/>\n&#8220;ATOTW&#8221;, please go to http:\/\/www.atotw.com.<br \/>\nTo search for archived &#8220;ATOTW&#8221; news, view the archive.<br \/>\nIf you would like to be added to this distribution list, click here.  Please<br \/>\nfollow the link in the response e-mail to validate your account.  You will<br \/>\nnot receive &#8220;ATOTW&#8221; e-mails until you complete this step.<br \/>\nIf you would like to be removed from this distribution list, click here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nPowered by PHPlist, www.phplist.com &#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear fellow Hanoverians: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (D.E.A.) is coordinating, with the Hanover Board of Health and the Hanover Police Department, a nationwide one-day event to take back unwanted medications on *Saturday, October 29, 2011 at the Hanover Senior &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/?p=1355\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atotw_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}