From WisPolitics.com/WisBusiness.com …
— Wisconsin collected more unwanted medications than any other state during this fall’s Drug Take Back effort, the state Department of Justice announced today.
The state collected just under 54,000 pounds of unwanted drugs this fall, according to figures provided by the agency.
Since the initiative was created in 2010 under the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, the state has collected about 1.4 million pounds of unwanted medications. That puts Wisconsin at third in the country for total collections since then, exceeded only by California with about 1.5 million pounds and Texas with nearly 1.6 million pounds.
“Wisconsin’s continued success with Drug Take Back is really extraordinary,” Attorney General Josh Kaul said in the release. “Thank you to the partners around the state whose efforts have helped make this such an outstanding program in Wisconsin.”
In Wisconsin, the DOJ works with the state Department of Health Services to organize the event, which also seeks to educate people about drug abuse as well as how to store and dispose of medications safely.
At the national level, just under 20.4 million pounds of unwanted drugs have been collected through the effort, DOJ says. Drug Take Back days are held twice a year in the spring and fall.
See the release below.
— All 53 U.S. Senate Republicans voted to block U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s amendment to a government funding package that sought to include a one-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies.
The amendment from Baldwin, D-Madison, was seen as a test vote on the proposed extension after a group of eight Dems agreed to a deal that would reopen the federal government. It included a pledge for the Senate to vote on the extension.
Republicans voted 53-47 to table the amendment. The overall package was later approved 60-40 with Baldwin opposed and U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, backing it. The legislation next heads to the House.
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