Drug Mail Back Program a Model for Wisconsin

UMaine Alert

Posted: April 19, 2024 - 1:32 PM

At approximately 9:24 a.m. on Friday, April 19, a University of Maine graduate student was struck by a university vehicle on Long Road at the University of Maine campus in Orono. The student reports that they are at a local hospital with minor injuries.

Emergency services, including the Orono Fire Department, University Volunteer Ambulance Corps, University of Maine Police Department, Orono Police Department and Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene.

The university vehicle involved in the incident was a Chevrolet Express van. It was being operated by a university employee.

Counseling services and support are available for students, faculty or staff who may have been affected. The Counseling Center can be reached at 207-581-1392 and the Dean of Students Office can be reached at 207-581-1406.

The scene has been cleared and Long Road is now accessible. An investigation is being conducted by the University of Maine Police Department with assistance from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office Crash Reconstruction Unit. Any witnesses to the incident are encouraged to contact Lt. Noel Santiago at noel.santiago@maine.edu.

April 5, 2011 UMaine in the News

Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
Wisconsin’s Ashland Current newspaper carried a story about a new pharmaceuticals mail-back program in that state, designed to keep prescription and other drugs out of the environment or wrong hands. Modeled after the University of Maine Center on Aging’s “Safe Medicine Disposal for ME” program, Wisconsin’s “Get the Meds Out” allows residents to send unused, unneeded or expired medicines to a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency processing site in Maine, the only one in the nation created to receive discarded drugs.