CVS Health Expands Safe Drug Disposal at CVS Pharmacy Locations in Arizona to Help Combat Opioid Abuse
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich attended the launch of the program at a Phoenix CVS Pharmacy location.
- Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich attended the launch of the program at a Phoenix CVS Pharmacy location.
- The 13 new medication disposal units installed in CVS Pharmacy locations across the state supplement the units CVS Health has donated to local law enforcement departments in Kingman, Tolleson and Wellton.
- The extension of CVS Health's safe medication disposal program in Arizona is part of the expansion of 750 safe medication disposal units to CVS Pharmacy locations across the U.S. and other enhancements to the company's strategy to address and prevent opioid abuse, announced in September 2017 .
- CVS Health has also worked to expand access to the opioid overdose-reversal drug naloxone in 46 states, including Arizona.