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Saturday, April 27 is National Drug Take Back Day
National Drug Take Back Day encourages you to clean out your cabinets of drugs of any type: prescription, over-the-counter or illegal, expired, unused, or unwanted drugs--including prescription drugs for pain, like opioids, or vitamins, samples, even medications for pets. Do your part!
Bring your medications, with personal information removed,
to the lobby of the Homer Police Department
located at 4060 Heath Street
Saturday, April 27th from 10 am to 2 pm for Homer's Take-Back Event.
The service is free and anonymous. And it’s easy. Just drop off your medications with any personal prescription information removed into the special drop box.
The program is also effective! Last year in Alaska, the program collected 8,160 pounds – or over four tons - of unused prescription drugs. In the sixteen years the program has operated, it has safely disposed of 5,439.5 tons of prescription drugs across the United States.
This disposal program is a simple, sensible way to reduce the amount of drugs inadvertently contributing to drug abuse and entering the environment.
Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet.
Medicines flushed or poured down the drain, or thrown in the landfill can end up polluting our surface, ground and marine waters, impacting aquatic species and contaminating our water supplies. Even low levels in the soil can be toxic to people and wildlife. Just as we don’t put used motor oil or leftover paint thinner in our regular trash, don’t put potent pharmaceutical chemicals into the trash.
Dispose of your unused prescriptions and other drugs properly. Bring them in on Take Back Day April 27th. And after you do, there’s no reason to wait for the next National Drug Take Back Day. The drop box is available year-round at the Homer Police Department so every day can be a drug take-back day!
