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Time to check and clean out your medicine cabinets, nightstands, or shelves where you keep your prescription drugs and safely dispose of your unwanted or expired medications. Medications can’t just be thrown out or flushed, you need to dispose of them safely and responsibly, so they don’t pollute streams or other bodies of water or get picked out of your trash.
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Why is it important to turn in unwanted and expired prescription medications? They could be stolen or abused by another member of the family or visitors. And if thrown away or flushed down a toilet, it pollutes water and the environment.
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Local prescription drug deaths declined in 2018. Deaths due to heroin increased. And fentanyl deaths continued to climb.
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The totals are in for the recent National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, and San Diegans turned in 8,411 pounds of unwanted or expired medications at 42 drop-off sites. Additionally, local law enforcement agencies provided the Drug Enforcement Agency with another 8,965 pounds of prescription drugs collected at year-round drop boxes.
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San Diegans will once again have an opportunity to get rid of unused or unwanted medications during the Drug Enforcement Administration’s spring Prescription Drug Take Back Day April 27.
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Do you have medications in your home that have expired or that you no longer need? Drop them off at 44 locations as part of National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, and law enforcement officers will safely dispose of those medications for you.
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By not promptly and properly disposing of unwanted and expired prescription medications in your home, you are taking a chance that they could be stolen or abused, by either a family member or visitors. You can turn them in to be safely destroyed at over 40 locations on Prescription Drug Take Back Day this Saturday […]
