Coroner Candidate Dave Bachmann Ahead of Curve on Pill Disposal
Based on narcotics being left in the house after his mother died, Dave Bachmann, Democratic Party candidate for McHenry County Coroner. came up with the idea that deputy coroners could pick up unused pills after people passed away. (Some are outright illegal to possess after a patient’s death.)
He floated this idea on McHenry County Blog last September.
Since then, the Fox Rive Grove Police have started the practice and the Chicago Tribune had an article by Ray Hood on the idea last Thursday.
The headline:
To avoid water contamination, officials hold medicine-collection drives“On Saturday, Cook County will hold its first medicine collection drive in the south suburb of Midlothian, joining Will, Kendall and other counties in the Chicago region in providing a safe way for residents to toss out their old prescription drugs,” the story said.
Flushing old pills no longer considered safe
Continuing,
“Chicago officials reacted swiftly in April after testing performed for the Chicago Tribune showed trace amounts of many common household medicines in the water supply, which serves 7 million people in the city and suburbs.”The Illinois EPA is encouraging such efforts.
Posted first at McHenry County Blog.
2 comments:
Dave's RX Narcotic Drug Retrieval Program Gains Statewide Momentum.
Where can a person read more about Bachmann's program? Is Rep Jack Franks going to credit the idea to Bachmann? If it's gaining Statewide Momentum, There must be some newspaper articles or other articles on the web about this program of disposing of drugs after people have passed away.
I'm interested in reading more, and especially Bachmann's involvement.
Perhaps you could post some links, either on here or at his blog. The link on his blog only points to this article.
Receiving no answers to my questions, a bit of online research gave me the answers.
Ahead of the curve?
NO. He grabbed onto the shirt tails of the idea, and is plainly trying to take credit for the idea. He's even gone so far as to state that HIS idea is gaining statewide momentum.
NO proof of anything, just his fibbing as usual. What next? Maybe he will be claiming he invented the internet.
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