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Health Department Purchases ELASTEC Drug Terminator for Columbia Police

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

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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Bisbee Community Chorus’s “Shed it-Shred it” fundraiser

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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Many taking advantage of prescription drug take back program

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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‘Terminator’ disposes of unused medicines

Kentucky State Police demonstrate new incinerator. It was sent here to reduce the flow of prescription drugs into the underground market. The Kentucky State Police Post 3 held a demonstration Friday of its new Drug Terminator, an incinerator that disposes of unused prescription drugs. Looking like a tricked-out trash barrel, the machine is fired by …

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Asset forfeiture assists purchase of Drug Terminator

Double-Duty Drug Fighter for Community Prescription Take-Back Programs and the Destruction of Confiscated Drugs. The safe and controlled destruction of confiscated drugs by law enforcement agencies is mandated by the Uniform Controlled Substances Act and is enforced by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (US DEA). Federal and state hazardous waste rules and regulations, enforced …

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Evidence drugs being destroyed by incinerator

Baxter County gets ‘Terminator’ to torch drugs Incinerator is portable device

MOUNTAIN HOME – Incinerating old or unneeded medicines helps counter teenage drug abuse and stems the flow of pharmaceuticals into rivers, lakes and streams, according to a partnership of law enforcement officers, health-care workers, businessmen and environmentalists. The Baxter County sheriff’s office has joined a growing number of police agencies nationwide in acquiring a “Drug …

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