It's Spring Cleaning Time ...Of Your Medicine Cabinet; Drug Take Back Day Is Saturday

EAST HAVEN, CT —It's spring cleanup time ...of your medicine cabinet.

The Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Campaign is underway.

Take Back Day medication drop-off is Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

People can drop off unneeded prescription medications at the East Haven Police Department's front lobby. The EHPD is located at 471 North High St.

"The DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day reflects DEA’s commitment to Americans’ safety and health, encouraging the public to remove unneeded medications from their homes as a measure of preventing medication misuse and opioid addiction from ever starting," the agency notes. "DEA is committed to making our communities safer and healthier, and we can do this by reducing overdoses and overdose deaths. While the community does its part to turn in unneeded medications and remove them from potential harm, we are doing our part to further reduce drug-related violence.