Please Take our SafeRx Safe Storage and Disposal Survey

During this time of COVID-19 and increased health awareness, would you help us improve the health and well being of our community by taking a brief survey? The SafeRx Safe Storage and Disposal Survey educates and informs participants about safe ways to store and dispose of medicines. The survey provides a list of more than 42 free disposal locations for medications and sharps. The survey is available in English and in Spanish. Thank you. We greatly appreciate all that you do in service to our community.

Protect yourself and loved ones from prescription drug misuse and poisoning by securing, monitoring and disposing of your medications.

The SafeRx Community Education and Engagement Initiative is a group of healthcare professionals, parents, government and youth serving agencies working  together to develop and publicize patient and community education  around prescription medication safety and to reduce unnecessary prescription drug access.  

Objective measure: By September 2021, there will be a 3% decrease in the lifetime use of prescription drugs among Santa Cruz County 11th grade youth, as measured by California Healthy Kids Survey.

• Increase awareness among parents, healthcare professionals, community members, students (middle school and older)

• Decrease access to prescription drugs through proper storage, monitoring and disposal

• Promote and increase use of convenient disposal locations:
  FIND A DROP-OFF SITE

• Increase healthcare professionals use of the CURES statewide prescription tracking system to decrease multiple prescriptions or over-prescribing

• Support the roll out of the Extended Producer Responsibility Ordinance in all Santa Cruz County jurisdictions (policy that pharmaceutical companies pay for the disposal of Rx drugs through take-back at all local pharmacies): Article on Extended Producer Responsibility Ordinance: http://bit.ly/2GUUB7l
  

PRESCRIPTION DRUG DATA