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October 25, 2024 at 5:59 PM. ... Since starting Take Back Day, Tennesseans have reportedly disposed of enough medication to fill nearly five tractor-trailer trucks. ... the U.S. Drug Enforcement ...
Four days following the DEA’s first Take-Back Day on September 25, 2010, Congress approved and amendment to the Controlled Substances Act.This action provided the DEA with the option to develop a permanent process for people to safely and conveniently dispose of their prescription drugs.
Those who are participating are asked not to drop off syringes, lancets or illicit drugs.
To address these concerns, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) created the National Take Back Initiative. [28] Drug Take-Back Days occur twice annually in April and October. [29] The take-back events are part of a mission to create safe medication disposal sites, prevent drug diversion or transfer of the prescribed drug for illicit use ...
On October 18, 1985, the DEA issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to transfer "Synthetic Dronabinol in Sesame Oil and Encapsulated in Soft Gelatin Capsules" — a pill form of Δ 9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the main psychoactive component of cannabis, sold under the brand name Marinol — from Schedule I to Schedule II (DEA 50 FR 42186-87).
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The Drug Enforcement Administration was established on July 1, 1973, [4] by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1973, signed by President Richard Nixon on July 28. [5] It proposed the creation of a single federal agency to enforce the federal drug laws as well as consolidate and coordinate the government's drug control activities.
DEA Administrator Anne Milgram testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on countering illicit fentanyl trafficking on Feb. 15, 2023. ©Courtesy of DEA YouTube