{"id":69767,"date":"2021-04-16T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/police-department-to-host-drug-take-back-site\/"},"modified":"2021-04-17T10:12:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:12:01","slug":"police-department-to-host-drug-take-back-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/police-department-to-host-drug-take-back-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Police department to host drug take back site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juneau Police Department will host a drop-off location for a drug take-back event, police announced.<\/p>\n<p>The event, being held for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, is scheduled for 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday April, 24, at the police station, JPD said in a news release. During that time, people can drop off prescription medications, including tablets, capsules, patches and other types of solid drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Liquids, syringes, other sharps and illegal drugs won&rsquo;t be accepted, according to JPD. Vaping devices and cartridges will be accepted if lithium batteries have been removed.<\/p>\n<p>The last national DEA Take-Back Day, held in October, set a record high for drugs collected and yielded nearly 500 tons of prescription drugs, according to police.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8226; Contact the Juneau Empire newsroom at (907)308-4895.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No liquids, syringes or lithium batteries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":69768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-69767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69767","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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69767"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=69767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}