April 29, 2024 – Drug abuse and unintended overdose deaths proceed to plague Northeast Ohio and the nation. The overdose loss of life price exceeded 112,000 for the primary time in a 12-month interval in 2023, in response to the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.

Nationwide surveys present that most individuals who abuse pharmaceuticals get them from household and mates, typically from a drugs cupboard at residence.

The most effective place to eliminate unused or expired medicines is an official assortment level. As a part of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Again Day on April 27, College Hospitals (UH) and Cleveland Clinic are teaming as much as host fundraisers at 29 places throughout Northeast Ohio. This occasion supplies the general public with a simple method to rid their houses of probably harmful, expired and undesirable prescriptions and over-the-counter medicines.

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