(KAIR)--The Atchison County Sheriff's Department has partnered with the Drug Enforcement Agency and CVS Pharmacy for the annual National Drug Takeback Program, scheduled to take place this weekend.
Sheriff Jack Laurie says they will be accepting most prescription medications including “expired medication or unused medication, medicine that people have in their medicine cabinet or wherever at home. The only thing we will not accept are sharps...needles, syringes, things like that. We don't have anywhere to dispose of that, and the DEA will not accept those.”
Laurie adds that there is an important reason for holding the event. He says “it's to prevent people from flushing the pills down the toilet or from them getting into other's hands...others that have abuse prescription drugs...just keeps that opportunity of the drugs getting into the wrong hands from actually happening and we will be disposing of them in the proper manner.”
The annual National Drug Takeback event will take place this Saturday from 10:00am to 2:00pm in the parking lot of CVS Pharmacy, located at 400 South Tenth Street in Atchison.
Collection sites in every community can be found by going to dea.gov.
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