Waste agency to restart pharmaceutical collections

(IL) Chicago Tribune – North Shore and northwest suburban residents can resume giving some old pharmaceuticals to the Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County as long as those medications do not include controlled substances.

SWANCC stopped collecting pharmaceuticals from member cities earlier this year after the federal Drug Enforcement Administration called its attention to a regulatory hitch: Patients cannot give controlled substances to anyone for disposal, except police departments. More

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