{"id":25297,"date":"2016-08-31T08:04:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/jpd-accepting-unwanted-medications-on-saturday\/"},"modified":"2016-08-31T08:04:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T15:04:07","slug":"jpd-accepting-unwanted-medications-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/jpd-accepting-unwanted-medications-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"JPD accepting unwanted medications on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Juneau Police Department will open its lobby doors Saturday to accept unwanted or expired pills and prescription medication.<\/p>\n

Medication may be dropped off from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in the drug drop box at JPD\u2019s station lobby, 6255 Alaway Ave. The drug drop box is usually only open on weekdays during business hours.<\/p>\n

With the start of the school year, Lt. Kris Sell said it\u2019s a \u201cgood time to examine what drugs are in your home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJPD finds that prescription drugs are sometimes brought from home to school by students and shared,\u201d Sell wrote in a news release Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Police installed the drug drop box last year to ensure Juneau residents had a proper way to dispose of prescription medications, reducing the risk of the drugs falling into the wrong hands and fueling drug addiction.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a good opportunity to get unwanted drugs, especially narcotics, out of your home so that the drugs are not diverted to people who might abuse them,\u201d Sell\u2019s release states. \u201cThere is a strong correlation between prescription drug abuse and the abuse of street drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flushing prescription medications down the toilet is no longer an accepted method of disposing of medication. It\u2019s bad for the environment and water quality, and the chemicals are discharged into local streams and rivers.<\/p>\n

Liquids, needles and gels are not accepted at the JPD drop box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Juneau Police Department will open its lobby doors Saturday to accept unwanted or expired pills and prescription medication. Medication may be dropped off from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in the drug drop box at JPD\u2019s station lobby, 6255 Alaway Ave. The drug drop box is usually only open on weekdays during business<\/a> hours. With the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-25297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25297"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}