{"id":4699,"date":"2012-01-26T15:26:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T22:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unrbep.org\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2012-01-26T15:26:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T22:26:05","slug":"drug-companies-fight-take-back-program-for-unused-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/drug-companies-fight-take-back-program-for-unused-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Companies Fight Take-Back Program for Unused Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Investigate West<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\nLeftover medications are fueling an epidemic of prescription-drug abuse that is killing more Washingtonians than traffic accidents, say drug-addiction experts. Yet pharmaceutical companies have consistently torpedoed efforts here to fund a statewide disposal program for unused drugs. Meanwhile, environmental authorities say prescription drugs are turning up in waterways and even drinking water \u2014 and it&#8217;s happening often enough that the old medications now are considered hazardous waste.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/invw.org\/content\/drug-companies-fight-take-back\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigate West Leftover medications are fueling an epidemic of prescription-drug abuse that is killing more Washingtonians than traffic accidents, say drug-addiction experts. Yet pharmaceutical companies have consistently torpedoed efforts here to fund a statewide disposal program for unused drugs. Meanwhile, environmental authorities say prescription drugs are turning up in waterways and even drinking water \u2014 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/drug-companies-fight-take-back-program-for-unused-medicine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drug Companies Fight Take-Back Program for Unused Medicine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4700,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions\/4700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}