{"id":6009,"date":"2014-04-29T11:26:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T18:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-police-collect-304-pounds-of-unwanted-prescription-drugs\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T19:20:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T02:20:39","slug":"kent-police-collect-304-pounds-of-unwanted-prescription-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-police-collect-304-pounds-of-unwanted-prescription-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Police collect 304 pounds of unwanted prescription drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>People dropped off 304 pounds of unwanted prescription drugs during a special collection day Saturday by the Kent Police.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The collection was part of the DEA National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;Thank you to all who dropped off all of your unwanted medications on Saturday,&#8221; the Kent Police posted on its Twitter account. &#8220;We collected 11 boxes for a total of 304.4 pounds. That is a huge step towards safe disposal and keeping medications out of the hands of those that misuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Proper disposal of medications is key to preventing misuse and abuse, according to a Kent Police media release. Prescription drugs are the second most commonly abused narcotic.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>While more than 2.1 million teens report abusing prescription drugs, the elderly are also vulnerable to prescription misuse as they are prescribed more medications than their younger counterparts.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People dropped off 304 pounds of unwanted prescription drugs during a special collection day Saturday by the Kent Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":6010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6009","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\/6009"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6009"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}