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  "description": "Another WFAM - Waste of the Week with more feel-good optics that miss the moment",
  "path": "/dea-takeback-day/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-22T16:19:33.000Z",
  "site": "https://news.opioidpolicy.org",
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    "Don’terra!💊🚽Another WFAM - Waste of the Week where communities are paying for a product that is not more effective than a toiletOpioid Policy InstituteAntonella Peterson",
    "☕ Buy Tony a Coffee",
    "database",
    "Subscribe now"
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  "textContent": "Look y'all... This Saturday, April 25th, is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, an event organized by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). It’s the 30th one, in fact (events are ~2/year). And if you’re one of the +4,000 communities that participates, great. It’s not a bad idea to remind people to clean out their medicine cabinets. Getting unused and expired prescriptions out of the home is a reasonable public health practice. We support safe drug disposal.\n\nBut we will call out when communities spend _**opioid settlement dollars** _on a program that mostly collects expired blood pressure meds, while people are still dying from the unpredictable and unregulated drug supply.\n\nYes, you read that right.\n\nCommunities are spending opioid settlement money to host, promote, and staff events for a program that operated _just fine_ without settlement dollars…oh, and the medications collected are overwhelmingly _not opioids._ And you can just flush opioids down the toilet anyway. If this sounds familiar...yes, it's basically the same problem we pointed out with Deterra and other drug disposal pouches.\n\nDon’terra!💊🚽Another WFAM - Waste of the Week where communities are paying for a product that is not more effective than a toiletOpioid Policy InstituteAntonella Peterson\n\nWhat are we doing, y’all? This is like paying for a car wash when it’s raining outside.\n\n☕ Buy Tony a Coffee\n\n#### Quick WFAM Project Updates (04.22.2026)\n\nOur database is at ****694 WFAM examples****\n📈 ****+45 WFAM**** examples since last post\n\nCurrent ****WFAM Total: ~$40.1 mil****\n📈 ****+$0.9mil**** since last post\n\n## DEA Take Back Day 🚯\n\nToday, we’re calling out spending opioid settlement money on drug take-back events:\n\n#### Drug Take Back Day Events (+$76,112)\n\n  * ****Where**** : California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York\n  * ****Initial Spending**** : Event materials (pamphlets, signs, etc), staff time\n  * ****Unallowable spending in**** : N/A\n  * ****AKA**** : DEA Drug Take Back Day, National Prescription Take Back Day, National Take Back Initiative\n\n\n\n## Background\n\nLet’s start with what DEA Take Back Day actually is.\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "DEA Takeback Day (Come and Take It!🐍)",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-22T16:19:33.975Z"
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