Inmar Intelligence will hold its fourth annual Drug Take Back Day event Saturday, collecting unused and unwanted medications from the community.The event is being held in conjunction with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Winston-Salem Police Department in an effort to help prevent overdose deaths, child poisonings, and water pollution from improper disposal.Ann-Marie Daugherty said between being the president of Supplytech for Inmar Intelligence and a mom, this issue is especially important to her.”There are over 60,000 children who are treated annually in emergency rooms because of an accidental ingestion or overdose,” she said. “While we support, from the business perspective, many retail pharmacies, manufacturers and wholesalers to ensure they are properly disposing of unused and expired medications, it’s even more important to us as a company because we are families.”Besides preventing addiction and overdose deaths, Daugherty also said safe disposal of these drugs is crucial to maintaining a clean environment.”If folks are flushing them or putting them into the trash can, they have the opportunity to get into our water streams,” she said. “Therefore, trace amounts of those drugs can get into our systems unknowingly because they’re being disposed of improperly.”You can anonymously drop off sharps and any unwanted medications at the drive-thru event Saturday, April 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Inmar’s former headquarters at 635 Vine St., Winston-Salem.If you can’t make it to Saturday’s event, Daugherty encourages you to find one of Inmar’s 4,000 receptacles around the country to properly dispose of medications. Find the location nearest you at www.safemedicinedrop.com.
Inmar Intelligence will hold its fourth annual Drug Take Back Day event Saturday, collecting unused and unwanted medications from the community.
The event is being held in conjunction with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Winston-Salem Police Department in an effort to help prevent overdose deaths, child poisonings, and water pollution from improper disposal.
Ann-Marie Daugherty said between being the president of Supplytech for Inmar Intelligence and a mom, this issue is especially important to her.
“There are over 60,000 children who are treated annually in emergency rooms because of an accidental ingestion or overdose,” she said. “While we support, from the business perspective, many retail pharmacies, manufacturers and wholesalers to ensure they are properly disposing of unused and expired medications, it’s even more important to us as a company because we are families.”
Besides preventing addiction and overdose deaths, Daugherty also said safe disposal of these drugs is crucial to maintaining a clean environment.
“If folks are flushing them or putting them into the trash can, they have the opportunity to get into our water streams,” she said. “Therefore, trace amounts of those drugs can get into our systems unknowingly because they’re being disposed of improperly.”
You can anonymously drop off sharps and any unwanted medications at the drive-thru event Saturday, April 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Inmar’s former headquarters at 635 Vine St., Winston-Salem.
If you can’t make it to Saturday’s event, Daugherty encourages you to find one of Inmar’s 4,000 receptacles around the country to properly dispose of medications. Find the location nearest you at www.safemedicinedrop.com.
