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Portland, ME 04101
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September 8, 2008 - The next Commissioners meeting will be held on Monday at 530 (1730) in the Peter Feeney Conference Room. Click here for the Agenda.

Help Us Help You!

Help the Portland Public Health Division focus its efforts on the health issues in your corner of Cumberland County by participating in our Community Themes and Strengths Assessment Survey.

This survey will help to identify important community health issues, both positive and negative, by allowing you, the community members of Cumberland County, to voice your opinion.

This survey is being conducted by the Portland Public Health Division and the Communities Promoting Health Coalition, People's Regional Opportunity Program with help from the Eastern Cumberland County Health Collation.

As an incentive for filling the survey out online you will have the chance to enter a drawing for a fruit basket provided by Edible Arrangements!

You can take the survey at this website or you can download and fill out the survey here:

Safe Medicine Disposal for ME Program

The Safe Medicine Disposal for ME Program is Maine's drug mailback program providing older adults and caregivers with free postage-paid envelopes for mailing in their unused and unwanted medicine for proper disposal.

This program is coordinated by the UMaine Center on Aging through a grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The intent of the program is to reduce the health and safety risks associated with the accumulation of drugs in the household and improper disposal of medicine. Our aim is to minimize the potential for overdoses and misuse of medicine by older adults, children, teens, and pets. Properly disposing of medicine also reduces the risk that these medicines will be stolen by others. Such disposal will also protect one of Maine's most precious resources: our environment.

Our mail back envelopes are available to the public as of today, May 12th at the following locations:

Portland: Rite Aid Pharmacy, 365 Allen Ave., 797-4351

Scarborough: Rite Aid Pharmacy, 600 U.S. Route 1, 885-1515

We do have a limited number of envelopes available at this time and we anticipate going statewide with the program in the fall of this year with more envelopes and more pharmacy sites. Envelopes are available at the pharmacies listed above for a limited time only. For those who are unable to obtain an envelope and have medicine to dispose of, we suggest contacting the Northern New England Poison Center at 1-800-222-1222 to find out about local drug take back events.

Ongoing - Civic Center Joint Task Force - Learn more about the Civic Center Joint Task Force.