HONOLULU — Lieutenant Governor Doug Chin announced Monday, with members of state, county and federal agencies, a major statewide collaboration to ensure a more convenient way for the public to drop off unused prescription drugs at designated police stations across the state.
The Hawaii Medication Drop Box Program is a public health and public safety partnership between the Department of the Attorney General, Department of Health, Department of Public Safety, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Hawaii, Maui, Honolulu, and Kauai Police Departments. After several meetings, the roles and responsibilities of these departments have been determined, with a cooperative understanding, to implement and sustain the Drop Box Program by utilizing federal, state, and county resources.
“This is a game-changer for a serious public health issue,” said Lt. Gov. Chin. “We’re being proactive and making it easier to remove dangerous drugs from our homes, schools and streets 365 days a year.”
The Hawaii Medication Drop Box Program will supplement, not replace the national drug take back events that state and federal law enforcement plan to continue twice a year. From 2010 to 2017, nearly 30,500 pounds of prescription drugs were collected here at previous events and disposed of safely.
In 2017, Gov. David Ige convened a statewide Opioid Initiative to prevent experiencing the alarming rate of opioid-related overdoses and deaths as seen in other states. The multi-agency collaboration resulted in an action plan, which included implementing a Medication Drop Box Program with the help of police departments in every county.
Maui Police already received six drop boxes while Kauai Police got three and Hawaii Police received eight. Every steel drop box will be bolted into place and accessible to the public.
“A medication drop box provides a way for the public to safely dispose of unused prescription medications all year long, and further prevents the misuse and abuse of these drugs,” said Kauai Acting Police Chief Michael Contrades. “The Kauai Police Department is pleased to provide this medication drop box for our community, which is located at police headquarters in Lihue.”
Each drop box is made of 14-gauge powder-coated steel and weighs 150 pounds. They measure 61 inches tall, 21.5 inches wide and 22 inches deep.
would it be cheaper process just to flush them down the toilet?
Aloha Kakou,
The Drugs for the Disease System is showing another effect of its reckless ill pointed approach to disease. Disposal of drugs is a Safeguard to the individual and the community, hoping the drugs are not hijacked and put back into the community.
Dropping off your medically prescribed or street drugs to Police drop off boxes, indicates the drugs are being over prescribed as to how many pills in a prescription, or the drugs caused too many sickly side effects, or they were ineffective and did not help the disease condition, or they were the wrong drug for that person, or the drug was targeting the wrong person or condition, or the drug caused an overdose and / or a loss of life; or the drug victim realized that a “pill for every ill” was not any part of getting ones health back. Throwing away drugs is a waste of money but an improvement in ones health by not taking the toxins that the drugs are made of.
For one, 90% of pharmacy drugs are made from petroleum (oil) or coal tar, that means the drugs are carcinogenic, or cancer causing. Why would anyone take cancer causing drugs when cancer is already the 3rd leading cause of death by disease. We suppose people accept drugs for disease care because the other “sheep” do too.
There are so many alternatives to drugs and surgery for whatever ails ya. There’s even little used or known Health Care and even fewer practitioners of Health Care, which does not mix well with disease care. Disease Care requires paying attention to your disease condition, while Health Care intelligently ignores Disease and sickness, instead concentrating on ones own Health. Health is like the Sun; Disease is like the Darkness.
Health Care is and has to be, a personal thing, only you can work on your own Health. Health Care is the doing daily of things that maintain, or restore, and perpetuate your Health.
The simplest and well known Daily Health Care effort is SWARE, every day…Sun, Water, Air, Rest, and Exercise. Simple? Yes? But Maybe Not! That’s a Trick Answer. You see one needs to know the amount, and how often, of each one you need of SUN, WATER, AIR, REST, and EXERCISE
And another 100% Primary Health Care is our daily food. There are 2 basic types of foods. Positive Live Food that promotes and provides life and all it’s needs, like our body’s cells, systems, and energy; and the other is the negative foods that promote death and disease and rob us of life.
Then there are also bad additives to good live foods, additives that promote death and disease. That would be carcinogenic chemicals in food that are made from coal tar and petroleum and that includes, but not limited to: artificial flavors, colors, preservatives, some food contents that add package weight but not nutrition, and of course Agricultural poisons on and in our food. The food additives and Ag poisons are from cancer causing petroleum and coal tars. Avoid them like the Plague is what respected food nutritional scientists say.
When it comes to your Health, you are it’s best caretaker, that’s why it is called YOURS.
Mahalo,
Charles