Creating Healthy Lifestyles for All Citizens of Carteret County: Where They Live, Learn, Earn, Play, and Pray

To Promote individual and community responsibility for good health in Carteret County.
The (HCCC) board of directors has adopted the following goals for 2006 - 2011:
 1. Improve quality of life and years of health.
 2. Create a network of programs and services that support healthy lifestyles.

Healthy Carolinians of Carteret County wants to create partnerships that work together to bring needed interventions and resources to Carteret County.

Our mission is not to compete with other organizations but to assist other organizations reaching goals and objectives related to healthy living in Carteret County.

Our community's good health depends on all individuals and organizations taking responsibility for promoting and supporting healthy lifestyles in Carteret County.

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We thank the following sponsors
for their ongoing financial support.

1.      Safeguard all drugs in the home. Monitor quantities and control access to your medicines.

2.    Set clear family rules about drug use, including not sharing prescribed medicine, not misusing over the counter medicines, and always following recommended dosages and time courses.

3.    Be a good role models by following these same rules with your own medicines.

4.    Speak openly to children and teens about the risks of abusing “legal” medications.  Emphasize that there is nothing “recreational,” “safe” or acceptable about taking unneeded medicine.

5.    Store controlled substances in a secure or concealed location with limited access. Consider lockboxes.

6.    Dispose of unused, old, and expired medicines disguised in household trash or at community “turn-in” events.

7.    Ask your family and friends to safeguard their prescription and over the counter drugs as well.

Download  Drug Disposal Instructional Flyer