{"id":17260,"date":"2016-04-13T15:43:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T22:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=17260"},"modified":"2016-04-13T15:43:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T22:43:04","slug":"take-back-the-drugs-in-amador-county-april-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=17260","title":{"rendered":"Take Back The Drugs In Amador County April 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson, CA&#8230;The Amador County Sheriff\u2019s Office, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration, will again participate in the nationwide Take-Back Initiative on April 30, 2016 from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm. Americans participating in DEA\u2019s ten previous National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day events turned in more than five million pounds of drugs at more than 5,000 sites manned by thousands of federal, state and local law enforcement partners including the Amador County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/acsheriff_logo-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17261\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/acsheriff_logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"acsheriff_logo (1)\" width=\"213\" height=\"241\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/acsheriff_logo-1.jpg 213w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/acsheriff_logo-1-150x170.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an effort to prevent increased pill abuse and theft, the Amador County Sheriff\u2019s<br \/>\nOffice will be collecting potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted<br \/>\nprescription drugs for destruction at one location within Amador County. The service is<br \/>\nfree and anonymous, no questions asked.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative addresses a vital public safety and public health issue. Many Americans<br \/>\nare not aware that medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to<br \/>\ndiversion, misuse and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the United States<br \/>\nremain at an alarming level according to the recently released 2014 National Survey on<br \/>\nDrug Use and Health (NSDUH). A majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained<br \/>\nfrom family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>The Amador County Sheriff\u2019s Office recognizes the importance of community<br \/>\ninvolvement and urges the citizens of Amador County to take a stand against illegal<br \/>\nprescription drug abuse by using this opportunity to dispose of expired, unused and<br \/>\nunwanted prescription drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The drop-off location in Amador County will be the Amador County Sheriff\u2019s Office<br \/>\nparking lot located at 700 Court Street, Jackson CA 95642.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson, CA&#8230;The Amador County Sheriff\u2019s Office, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration, will again participate in the nationwide Take-Back Initiative on April 30, 2016 from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm. Americans participating in DEA\u2019s ten previous National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day events turned in more than five million pounds of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,20,33,16,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amador-county","category-featured","category-health-fitness","category-law-enforcement","category-life-style","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/acsheriff_logo-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}