as dumb as a gun buy back
In The City (My The City), the local authorities participated in a national effort to get prescription drugs off the streets:
More than 100 people came to the Blount County Justice Center Saturday to drop off unwanted prescription drugs Saturday as part of a nationwide effort to rid medicine cabinets of pills and other supplies that are easily abused.
They call it a drug take-back. Only it wasn’t theirs to begin with.
September 27th, 2010 at 9:57 am
Yeah, they started doing them in my state too. I gueses nobody in copland knows how to do proper root/cause analysis anymore.
September 27th, 2010 at 10:16 am
We just had one here in the Nashua NH area. It was a “success” which I don’t quite understand. Has no one ever heard of a toilet?
Why go to all the trouble to take them in when you could just flush them? You paid for them, if you didn’t use them, then just put them someplace no one will be able to get to them.
September 27th, 2010 at 10:38 am
Yes, flush them. Because we need more funky chemicals in the water supply.
Might get some of the nutbags to calm the hell down…
September 27th, 2010 at 10:52 am
They’re doing it here in Delaware as well. It’s dumb.
You can bring old expired meds to your pharmacy to be disposed of properly if you don’t want to flush em.
September 27th, 2010 at 11:26 am
Too bad it is not drug buyback. Guess that would make everybody there drug dealers and buyers though.
September 27th, 2010 at 11:52 am
I have to disagree. Gun buybacks outdumb this idea by several orders of magnitude.
The willful destruction of expired Percosets vs. Grandpa’s Winchester?
No contest.
September 27th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Yea, I was going to blog this. The FBI is involved, according to my local news. I’m sure they promise to never, ever, aggregate the data off of the prescription labels and use it for enforcement purposes.
Sorry, but I’d much rather have three-eyed fish.
September 27th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
We had one here in Gresham, OR this weekend. I was supporting a TEA Party event 2 blocks away. My mission was to drive my VERY conspicuous M35A2 6X6 truck, with the Stars and Stripes, plus a Gadsden Flag, past the intersection the demonstrators were using. I made the mistake of turning into the City Hall parking lot to turn the beast around for another pass, and the place looked like an armed camp, with a barricade chicane to drive through and at least a half-dozen armed cops standing around.
The sight of the M35 astounded the cops so much that they just watched me turn around with their jaws agape, and did nothing to stop me. I didn’t return to that lot for the rest of the demonstration, however.
September 27th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
‘Take-back’ something you never had, just like ‘buy-back’ something that never belonged to you…
I think there’s a theme here.
September 27th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
” and the medicine bottles are being recycled ”
So someone is actually dim enough to turn prescriptions in with their name on the bottle ?
September 27th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Why a drug buy back to stop crime is dumb, getting rid of drugs that otherwise are going to be flushed than enter into the water supply is a good thing. We really don’t know what effects these things have on the critters we all like to hunt and fish and I would rather not find out it makes them grow a second head or something. So folks even if you don’t give back perfectly good medication, please don’t flush. Sewage treatments plants DO NOT treat this stuff and we have no idea if it is safe in the water supply (which we all drink).
September 28th, 2010 at 4:37 am
So it’s OK to take the medicine and then pee it into the wastewater treatment system, but it’s not OK to flush it?
September 28th, 2010 at 10:18 am
I am so saving up all of my unused meds…..kid’s college won’t be cheap.
September 28th, 2010 at 10:19 am
Oh. It’s not a BUY back. Apparently, reading comprehension is not my forte….