AtlantiCare offers safe medication disposal assistance
September 21, 2018
Contacts:
Jennifer Tornetta, (O) 609-569-7010, (C) 609-335-3446, jennifer.tornetta@atlanticare.org
Joseph Clark, Jr., (O) 609-272-6318, (C) 609-437-4016, joseph.clarkjr@atlanticare.org
For Immediate Release: September 21, 2018
AtlantiCare now offers medication disposal boxes to assist patients and the community in disposing medications.
The disposal boxes, shaped like mail-drop boxes, are at AtlantiCare community pharmacies at its Atlantic City, Galloway and Manahawkin locations:
William L. Gormley AtlantiCare HealthPlex, 1401 Atlantic Avenue, Atlantic City
54 West Jimmie Leeds Road, Galloway
AtlantiCare Health Park, 517 Route 72 West, Manahawkin
AtlantiCare also provides medication disposal bags to patients prescribed acute controlled substance prescriptions who are discharged from the Emergency Department or any acute care setting at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center’s Mainland and City campuses in Pomona and Atlantic City. ARMC’s on-site pharmacies provide the bags, which deactivate the medications, to patients.
“Helping our patients and the community safely dispose opioids and other medications is one way we are working to prevent opioid-related deaths,” said Sandra Garrett, assistant vice president, Pharmacy and Medical Specialty Service Lines, AtlantiCare.
If you or a loved one is seeking treatment for addiction, please call AtlantiCare at 1-609-646-9159. For a life-threatening situation, dial 911.
For more information about AtlantiCare, call the AtlantiCare Access Center at 1-888-569-1000, or find AtlantiCare on Facebook.
