PRESCRIPTION DRUG TAKE BACK DAY COMING TO FVMPD OCTOBER 22
The Fox Valley Metro Police Department, in cooperation with
the Wisconsin Department of Justice, will coordinate a Prescription Drug Take
Back initiative on Saturday, October 22, 2016 from 11am-2pm at the Little Chute
Village Hall located at 108 W. Main St.
This effort will continue to bring focus to
the issue of prescription opiate abuse highlighted by the Wisconsin Department
of Justice’s Dose of Reality campaign to prevent prescription painkiller abuse.
The goal of the Take Back Day is to provide a safe, convenient and responsible
means of disposal, while also educating the community about the potential for
abuse of these medications.
Find a Take Back location near you at http://doseofrealitywi.gov/drug-takeback/find-a-take-back-location/
Find a Take Back location near you at http://doseofrealitywi.gov/drug-takeback/find-a-take-back-location/
Unused or expired medicine should never be
flushed or poured down the drain. Water reclamation facilities are not designed
to remove all of them and trace amounts of pharmaceuticals are showing up in
rivers and lakes around the world.
“With the opiate epidemic devastating families and
communities across our state, we must work together to remove unused
prescription painkillers from circulation. They need to be collected and
destroyed,” Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel said. “This program will
also reduce the environmental hazards associated with the improper disposal of
unused prescription drugs.”
GUIDELINES:
All waste pharmaceuticals must be generated by a
household – no businesses are allowed.
Bring: Prescription (controlled and
non-controlled) and over-the-counter medications, ointments, patches,
non-aerosol sprays, creams, vials and pet medications.
Do
Not Bring: Illegal drugs, needles/sharps, inhalers,
aerosol cans, bio-hazardous materials (anything containing a bodily fluid or
blood), personal care products (shampoo, soaps, lotions, sunscreen), household
hazardous waste (paint, pesticides, oil, gas), mercury thermometers.
- Participants may dispose of solid, non-liquid medication(s) by removing the medication from its container and disposing of it directly into a disposal box or into a clear sealable plastic bag. Plastic pill containers should not be collected. Blister packages are acceptable without the medications being removed.
- Liquids will be accepted during this initiative. However, the liquids, creams and sprays must be in their original packaging and evenly distributed within the boxes of collected solid prescription medications. Liquids without the original packaging will not be accepted.
- Illicit substances such as marijuana or methamphetamine are not a part of this initiative and should not be placed in collection containers.
