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SEWARD, BASSETT, LEAF INVOLVED

10,000 ‘Pouches’ Donated

To Deactivate Unused Pills

Putting a human face on the problem, Rebekah Smith of Otego tells how, as a teenager, she became dependent on old pills left in people's medicine cabinets; she has been drug-free for six years. She was speaking today at a noontime press conference at The Otesaga, where state Sen. Jim Seward, Bassett CEO Vance Armstong, LEAF's Julie Dostal and drug company Mallinckrodt spokesperson Rhonda Sciarra announced the company's donation of 10,000 "medication deactivation pouches" to LEAF for distribution. Bottom left, Seward and Vance confer prior to the press conference; at left is Karen Dolan, from Bassett's marketing department. At bottom right, Sciarra shows how putting up to 45 pills in the pouch and addiing warm water, pills' potency can be elimiinated. The pouch can then be thrown away in household trash. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
Putting a human face on the problem, Rebekah Smith of Otego (top photo) tells how, as a teenager, she became dependent on pills by removing old prescriptions from people’s medicine cabinets; she has been drug-free for six years. She was speaking today at a noontime press conference at The Otesaga, where state Sen. Jim Seward, Bassett CEO Vance Armstong, LEAF’s Julie Dostal and drug company Mallinckrodt spokesperson Rhonda Sciarra announced the company’s donation of 10,000 “medication deactivation pouches” to LEAF for distribution locally. Bottom left, Seward and Brown confer prior to the press conference; at left is Karen Dolan, from Bassett’s marketing department. At bottom right, Sciarra shows how putting up to 45 pills in the pouch and addiing warm water, pills’ potency can be elimiinated. The pouch can then be thrown away in household trash.  Malllinckrodt operates the Covidien methadone production plant in Hobert.  (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
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