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Tagged: pharmaceutical drug disposal

1:49pm

Mon March 12, 2012
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Health, Science, Environment

Alameda County could take the lead in unwanted medication disposal

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Prescription drug use is rising. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, by the year 2008, half of all Americans were taking one or more prescription drugs, and 37 percent of older Americans took five or more.

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pharmaceutical drug disposal
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