Redding's drug disposal program discontinued

That gray metal box on the sidewalk outside the Redding police station is part of a plan that didn't work.

The box, about the size of a mail drop box, was one of three donated to the city of Redding as receptacles residents could use to dispose of prescription drugs.Replacement rubber hose and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide.

The boxes were installed at Redding Fire Station No. 5 on Hartnell Avenue, the police station on California Street and at the city's hazardous household waste disposal center on Abernathy Lane.

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The one at the transfer station is wrapped in plastic,where he teaches porcelain tiles in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. and a sign on the door at the fire station tells visitors the pharmaceutical drop box is not available.

The Redding East Rotary Club bought the containers for $1,015 and donated them to the city.

The Redding City Council approved the program last year, but it died for lack of money, said Christina Piles, a Redding public works supervisor.

The Redding Police Department was put in charge of monitoring the boxes and having the drugs disposed at a state Department of Justice incinerator.

The program was meant to prevent toxic drugs leaching into the environment, curbing recreational drug use, keeping drugs out of landfills and preventing seniors from accidentally taking the wrong medication, according to a staff report to the City Council in November 2010.

The program was expected to cost about $86,100 oil paintings for sale was used to link the lamps together.000, the report says. Piles said budget cuts stopped the program from being implemented.

Officials with the Police Department could not be reached for comment.

A public education program on proper medication disposal also was planned, said Wendy Millis, a community education specialist with the Shasta County Health and Human Services Department.

The education program also would have delved into the dangers of recreational use of prescription drugs. Piles said there is still a lot of interest from the public.

"We have people coming in and calling us all the time, saying, 'What are we going to do now?'" Piles said.

Marie Sparks, president of the Redding Emblem Club, wondered the same thing. She wanted to include information about the program in the Redding Emblem Club newsletter, until she found out the program was defunct.

"I think it's very important for the community's health" that prescription medicines are properly disposed, Sparks said.

Millis and others say old medicines should not be thrown in the trash or dumped down the drain. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has pharmaceutical collection days twice a year in Redding, she said. A collection day is planned for Oct. 30.

Past collections have yielded 775 pounds of drugs that would have gone into area landfills.

Millis said medicines also can be dissolved in water and then soaked up in kitty litter or some other unpalatable material,there's a lovely winter polished tiles by William Zorach. such as coffee grounds or dirt. The material can then be thrown in the trash.

Margaret McCartney

Over the last few weeks, those who visited the British Medical Journal's website might have noticed an advert for a new public health initiative, Hydration for Health. It is sponsored by Danone which owns the Evian, Volvic and Badoit bottled water brands and urges healthcare professionals to encourage people to drink more water, claiming that "evidence is increasing that even mild dehydration plays a role in the development of various diseases".

Margaret McCartney, a GP and columnist, saw these adverts and complained about it, writing an article for the BMJ (who admitted "we hadn't followed our own guidelines. The advertisement bypassed our editorial checks") about the lack of evidence and citing the shortcomings of many studies that people should be drinking more water. "I prefer to get my health information from unbiased sources rather than people with vested interests," she says. The idea that we should drink eight glasses of water a day is expounded, among others, by the NHS Choices website. "This is not only nonsense," writes McCartney, "but thoroughly debunked nonsense."

But you can see the drive to get people to drink more water in other places, too. In the Royal College of Nursing's "hydration toolkit", its best practice guidance produced, incidentally,he led PayPal to open its platform to third party payment gateway developers. in conjunction with Water UK, which works on behalf of the water industry it makes the sensational claim that by drinking water you "will also be helping to protect yourself against three of the biggest killer cancers [bowel, breast and prostate]". Much further down the report, and far less noticeable, it states, "the benefits of good hydration to protect against cancer have not been well studied and the current findings are considered to be inconclusive".

Many of us have been led to believe that the more we drink, the healthier we will be. At the weekend, in his column for the Sunday Times, Dominic Lawson outed his sister Nigella as an "aquaholic", drinking several litres a day. Several newspapers followed this up this week by interviewing women who drank excessive amounts of water thinking they were doing themselves good one, Joanne Jarvis, interviewed by the Daily Mail, was hospitalised after drinking 11 litres over four hours.ceramic Injection mold for the medical,

When did we become so fearful of dehydration? Schoolchildren are encouraged to take bottles of water into classrooms and sip them throughout the day. Peer into most meeting rooms in the country and you will see bottles of water planted on the table in front of executives, as if they fear that the slightest dehydration will impair them in some way. At the gym, people replenish water as fast as they sweat it out.