EPA Challenge: Milwaukee Drug Collection for Lake Michigan
EPA Challenge: Milwaukee drug collection for Lake Michigan – They kept the traffic flowing in Milwaukee as more than 2000 people dropped off unused medications during an Earth Day 2008 project to properly dispose unwanted pharmaceuticals. Milwaukee residents turned in 3.5 tons of pharmaceuticals during the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge Over 7000 pounds of pharmaceuticals were turned by the public in only four hours during the Milwaukee area’s Medicine Collection Day on Saturday, April 19, 2008. The third annual pharmaceutical collection was again organized by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD). Organizers handed out fliers and took a survey. Named “A prescription for clean water and safe kids,” unused medication collection sites were set up in Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, and Washington Counties. Pharmacists and police officers worked at all the challenge pharmaceutical collections. Milwaukee was one of 100 EPA challenge projects in 8 states in the Great Lakes basin. The event helps protect Lake Michigan, other lakes/streams plus prevents childhood poisonings, and reduce substance abuse. Pharmaceuticals were destroyed in state-of-the-art EPA-approved incinerators. Organizers say you should never flush or pour old medicine down the drain because many wastewater treatment plants are not designed to remove the chemicals – that are returning to lakes and rivers – and end up in your tap water. Law enforcement destroyed narcotic pain killers, cough syrup with codeine, and tranquilizers. Medications incinerated …
Acheson new Mineral County judge
Filed under: Indiana Drug Rehab Centers
Acheson earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado and a J.D. from Indiana University, Maurer School of Law. … She was a founding member and remains an officer of the Alamosa Family Drug Treatment Team, served a term on the Judicial …
Read more on Mineral County Miner
BRIEFLY: Sept. 8
Filed under: Indiana Drug Rehab Centers
Classes will be held in the sanctuary studio at South Shore Conservatory, at the Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 Saint George St., Duxbury. For more information or to register, call Anne at 781-934-2731, ext. 21, or visit www.sscmusic.org/dance. King …
Read more on Wicked Local
Dr. Peter Coleman, Nationally Acclaimed Expert on Addiction and Recovery, to …
Filed under: Indiana Drug Rehab Centers
The Coleman Institute announced that Dr. Peter Coleman, the nationally acclaimed founder of the Accelerated Detoxification Technique, will give a Free lecture on "Substance Abuse and Opiate Addiction – Innovative New Treatment Methods" on Thursday …
Read more on PR Web (press release)