The Ryan's Solution Foundation

04/26/2012

DEA take-back day is this Saturday from 10 – 2. Let’s hear it for the law enforcement professionals that will be opening their doors tomorrow to keep their communities safe! http://www.takebackyourmeds.org

Take Back Your Meds is a group of over 270 organizations demanding a statewide program for the safe return and disposal of left-over medicines.

02/13/2012

· Opposition from multi-billion dollar drug industry & Senate politics are blocking secure med take-back bill SSB 5234 from vote.
Will Senators listen to their police, nurses, fire fighters, community groups, cities & counties about public safety need? Less than 2 days until Tuesday deadline for passage! http://www.takebackyourmeds.org/make-it-happen/proposed-state-law

Twitter: Drug industry & politics block meds take-back bill. Will Senators listen to communities? Deadline is tomorrow! http://www.takebackyourmeds.org/make-it-happen/proposed-state-law

02/11/2012

Take Back your meds is in pearall. We have lost three Senators Pflug, Tom, and another please call or email your reps. We are going to pass a bill on bird P**p but not protect our children from prescription meds or help the environment by disposeing of the properly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

02/03/2012

Brothers and Sisters,

Senate Bill 5234 Take Back Your Medication is at a critical point in the session. Some senators are stating "they are not hearing from their community on this".

The Take Back Your Meds Coalition has been working on this for four years with a ton of push back from the Pharmaceutical industry because it would cost them .02 cents per $36.00 prescription.

This bill creates a state wide medicine take bake funded by the drug companies with a 2.5 million dollar cap on their out of pocket expense. The program is expected to be well below that amount. They spent over 450 million in advertising alone. No matter what your read this program is cost neutral to the state.

The Ryan's Solution Foundation as well as The Washington State Council of Fire Fighters and Solid waste divisions throughout the state as well as waste water treatment plants all over Washington support this bill. The list of Supporters is too long to mention but needless to say our brothers and sisters in law enforcement are supporting this bill and need our help. They cannot sustain this program with the continuing cuts in their budgets.

At this time 17 of 39 counties in Washington collect medication. In King County there are 5 sights 3 in our area and none in the densely populated area of King County. Please email or call your representative in the Senate to get them to support this bill. Senators Hill, Fain, Becker, Litsow and Hobbs especially need to hear from us.

Here is the link to the bill: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5234

Thanks your continued support,
Scott DePuy

01/26/2012

Drug Task Force Commander Pat Slack says “… permanent recycling systems exist for … tires, computers and batteries … but not for unwanted meds.” “an unused tire has never killed anybody, but unused meds have.” This and more in the Investigate West story about meds take-back bill (SSB 5234) (http://crosscut.com/2012/01/23/health-medicine/21822/Drug-industry-has-so-far-stalled-safety-and-pollution-measure/ )

Pharmaceutical companies say that a bill from state Sen. Adam Kline to require take-back programs for unused prescription drugs would duplicate federal efforts and do little.

01/06/2012

Imagine 21

01/06/2012

January 19, Ryan's Birthday is upon us and this year he would have been 21. I think of what we would have done for his birthday the plans, the environment around our family and freinds and of course our boy/man.

We want to to let all of our friends and family know we know everything you have done for us and for him and thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Please join us it a thought about Ryan or maybe something that has happened since his passing that has helped or effected you.

07/10/2011

On August 20 & 21 Ryan's Solution is partnered with Finish Strong Events www.finishstrongevents.com for "The Finish Strong MultiSport Weekend" At Sky River Park in Monroe Washington.

Washington Triathlon, Cycling, Swimming Events by Finish Strong Events.

05/13/2011

Wow still reeling from an unbelievable experience at Issaquah High School. Teens were great, so many great questions, most we have ever had. Thank you so much to Emily for having us out. Thank you to the staff for getting us set up with out any hitches.

05/12/2011

Getting ready for a big presentation at Issaquah High School tomorrow 5/12/11 its going to be great.

05/11/2011

Ryan was a funny, loving young man who wanted so many things but had the large obstacle of drugs in his way. Ryan was a very accomplished soccer player and loved the sport immeasurably. I am a firefighter and Ryan was very sensitive to when I worked and he would be home with his mom to keep her company. Those evenings when I was at work was their time, time to talk time to hang out and watch TV or go shopping or just be together as a mom and her son. Every couple of weeks, or once a month, it seemed like Ryan would find a new word or a new way to use an old word. Like the word filthy in a good way, “That was filthy!” or his last one was “dank”, dank meant cool...“that is so dank”. Ryan’s sense of humor was fun, annoying, and just plain funny. But, it gave me pause to not take life so seriously.