{"id":62820,"date":"2019-12-17T11:19:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T16:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=62820"},"modified":"2019-12-17T11:19:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T16:19:47","slug":"brock-community-reminded-to-properly-dispose-of-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/12\/brock-community-reminded-to-properly-dispose-of-medication\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock community reminded to properly dispose of medication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University&#8217;s Student Health and Wellness is encouraging all students, staff and faculty to return their unused or expired medication to pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p>Medication, including those in liquid form and inhalers,\u00a0can be returned to Student Health Services (Harrison Hall) until Thursday, Dec. 19 at 4 p.m. and at the Campus Pharmacy (605 Glenridge Ave. #9) from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily, with the exception of holiday hours:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monday, Dec. 23 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, Dec. 24 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Closed Wednesday, Dec. 25, Thursday, Dec. 26 and Wednesday, Jan. 1<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, Dec. 31 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Julie Fennell, Health Promotion Educator for Student Health and Wellness, says that any pharmacy will safely and properly dispose of any medication at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important for everyone&#8217;s health and safety that people aren&#8217;t using each other&#8217;s medication or taking medication that&#8217;s expired,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s also bad for the environment to flush pills down the toilet.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University&#8217;s Student Health and Wellness is encouraging all students, staff and faculty to return their unused or expired medication to pharmacies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[8535,8534],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62824,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62820\/revisions\/62824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}