DEA Urges Proper Disposal of Prescription Drugs

The federal Drug Enforcement Agency will work with the Danbury Police department to help people properly dispose of their expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs.

The DEA and the Housatonic Valley Coalition Against Substance Abuse is asking families to take the old prescription drugs out of their medicine cabinets and to bring them on April 30 to the Danbury Police Department between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

“Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse and abuse,” Heather Sadler reported from the HVCASA.

Sadler said proper disposal is not the toilet or trash. Proper disposal is bringing the medicines to the police department. The toilet or trash method can create safety and health hazards.

For more information about this effort, visit www.hvcasa.org or www.dea.gov.

Other police departments also participating in this effort at the same time and date include the Bethel Police Department, Brookfield Pharmacy, the Redding Center Fire Department, the Ridgefield First Congregational Church and the Newtown Police Department.