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Beaver Island Rural Health Center accepts unwanted and expired medicines

Also Beaver Island Rural Health Center prescription drug collection 2011

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TypeEvent
Date2011-07
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
2011-07
Kind
Medical
Where
Beaver Island
Carried out by
Beaver Island Rural Health Center
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
healthcarecommunityconservation
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The July 2011 Beacon reports that the Beaver Island Rural Health Center was accepting unwanted or expired prescription drugs, pet medicines, nutritional supplements, and similar products as a way to reduce environmental hazards.

Evidence limits

The surviving OCR excerpt is brief and does not preserve a complete list of accepted materials, operating hours, or disposal procedure.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, July 2011, "BIRHC Helps Reduce Environmental Hazards."
    Reports that the Rural Health Center serves as a collection point for unwanted or expired prescription drugs, pet medicines, nutritional supplements, and other unwanted products. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2011-07_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the environmental-health notice.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2011-07_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Rural Health Center accepts unwanted and expired medicines”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-birhc-prescription-drug-collection-2011/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 2011, "BIRHC Helps Reduce Environmental Hazards." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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