{"id":22432,"date":"2016-10-24T11:41:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T18:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-police-collect-306-pounds-of-prescription-drugs\/"},"modified":"2016-11-07T11:55:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T19:55:23","slug":"kent-police-collect-306-pounds-of-prescription-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-police-collect-306-pounds-of-prescription-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Police collect 306 pounds of prescription drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>People dropped off 306 pounds of expired, unwanted and unused medications on Saturday at the Kent Police station during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>A steady flow of people stopped at the station throughout the day, according to police officials.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The event is part of the DEA National Prescription Drug Take Back Day effort to reduce drug misuse and targets unused prescriptions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Proper disposal of medications is key to preventing misuse and abuse. Prescription drugs are the second most commonly abused narcotic. Safe disposal reduces drug abuse, reduces accidental poisoning and reduces medication in the environment.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People dropped off 306 pounds of expired, unwanted and unused medications on Saturday at the Kent Police station during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":22433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-22432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22432"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}