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How to get rid of leftover prescription opioids

Doctors have prescribed painkillers to millions of people in the United States and other parts of the world, but those prescriptions often outlast the pain they're meant to subdue.  Continuing to take painkillers after the pain has mostly subsided increases the risk of addiction. Right now,  2.5 million  Americans are addicted to painkillers, and 500,000 of them have died due to an opioid overdose in the past 15 years.  Perhaps you have half a bottle of painkillers left over from getting your wisdom teeth removed, or knee surgery. It sits in the cabinet gathering dust and expiring. So how do you legally get rid of all the extra pain pills in your medicine cabinet? The Food and Drug Administration has several  guidelines  based on the kind of pills you're taking.  The good news for those of you with pain pills lying around: You can probably just flush them down the toilet (though you shouldn't throw them in the trash).  Putting them i...

Check Out These Seven (7 ) Apps That Will Help Your Business Grow On Facebook

Here’s a list of seven apps that your company should consider if Facebook is a part of your growth strategy. 1.  Yotpo IMAGE:  YOTPO While Facebook has been known to be a brands’ go-to marketing channel, oftentimes your actual customers can generate enough hype around a product to drive sales. Indeed, leveraging user-generated content (UGC) such as customer reviews or user-uploaded images on Facebook can help your business immensely. With Yotpo’s  Dynamic Ads  feature you can use tools to share customer reviews and photos organically, as well as incorporate them into paid ads  —  a tool so valuable, Facebook used it as a case study. 2.  ViralStyle Facebook dwarfs all other social channels when it comes to active users, content sharing and referred click-throughs to websites. But the average Facebook users don’t spend their time looking for business opportunities  —  they’re there to see amusing content and kee...

Easy Steps To Better Icon Design

Icon and vector marketplaces like " Iconfinder"  are making well-designed vector icons an inexpensive and readily available resource for web and print designers. Thousands of high-quality premium icon sets and hundreds of great free sets are available. Every icon set submitted to Iconfinder is reviewed and evaluated for potential appeal to our website users and for potential commercial value as premium icons. When reviewing icon sets submitted to the website, we have a responsibility to our designers and to our customers to make sure all premium icons on the website are of the highest possible quality. To achieve this, we are constantly aware of the difference between “not quite good enough” and “premium quality.” The difference is often very small and usually requires minimal changes, but it has a great impact on the design and value of the icon set. Unlike many other marketplaces, we rarely reject sets that don’t quite meet our quality requirements outright. Instead, we ...