The following excerpt is from May 8, 2019 roundupweb.com By By Dianne Swanson On Thursday, May 2, Richland County law enforcement incinerated drugs which had been deposited in the several drop-off boxes in Richland County, plus any collected by law enforcement that were approved by the courts to destroy. According to DEA materials, the National […]
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The following is a letter to the editor from the January 2, 2018 edition of CarolinaCoastOnline Morehead City, N.C. Jan. 2, 2018 TO THE EDITOR: We have a drug problem in America. The statistics are astounding. According to Common Sense for Drug Policy, there were 63,600 drug overdose deaths in 2016. The Vietnam War saw
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The following excerpt is from November 16, 2017 saukvalley.com By BOB TOMASZEWSKI btomaszewski@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5523 @TheBobMob STERLING – Local police have a new weapon in their war on drugs, and the firepower is kinda awesome. Sterling Police, in collaboration with the Rock Falls Police Department, the Whiteside County Sheriff’s Department and the county health
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September 26, 2017 QCOnline.com GENESEO – Police soon may be able to incinerate drug evidence faster and at higher temperatures. Aldermen voted Tuesday to recommend to council Oct. 10 the purchase of an Illinois-made “Drug Terminator” incinerator. Cost is about $4,000. The police department’s drug fund has the money available and it must be used
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The ELASTEC Drug Terminator is a safe, efficient way to dispose of released drug evidence and medication collected during drug take back programs. The portable incinerator is currently used by police departments across the country to keep drugs off our streets and out of our water supply by reducing them to ash. Legislation is being
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Elastec/American Marine Sales Manager, Jeremy Pretzsch has been busy fielding inquiries about MediBurn, a portable medical waste incinerator, as a weapon in the fight to help curb the spread of Ebola. Pretzsch recently discussed the advantages of the ELASTEC MediBurn with a United Nations representative regarding the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and
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The Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services paid for a drug incinerator the Columbia Police Department recently acquired, according to a news release. The incinerator, named the Drug Terminator, cost $4,601, health department spokeswoman Andrea Waner said. The device will be used for disposing of prescription drugs left in the police department’s
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Detectives fire up incinerators to destroy drugs, donate thousands to public schools Brunswick County, NC (WECT) – Detectives are not only getting drugs off the streets, but they’re also getting rid of them forever. Undercover detectives fired up the Drug Terminator on Friday. It’s an incinerator used to destroy drugs they confiscate from criminals. Detectives
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A steady stream of people turned up to the Bisbee Community Chorus’s “Shed it-Shred it” fundraiser to dispose of documents, electronics and medications at Ace Hardware in Bisbee on Saturday. In the kickoff event for Cochise County’s news Medication Disposal Program, about 5 pounds of unneeded medications were dropped off to be incinerated in the
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UNION COUNTY — The opportunity to dispose of unwanted prescription medication on a weekday with no questions asked has proved so popular that the old mailbox used by the Union County Sheriff’s Office to collect the drugs has to be emptied every week. For three years, the sheriff’s office participated in the U.S. Drug Enforcement
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