Freehold Police Accepting Your Unneeded Prescriptions During Operation Take Back Saturday

FREEHOLD, NJ — Take a look in your medicine cabinet. Do you see that old bottle of Percocets on the shelf, the one your teen got when her wisdom teeth were pulled? How about the pills you were prescribed for any manner of ills, that have just been sitting there, taking up space?

They don't have to sit in your cabinet any longer.

Saturday is the Drug Enforcement Agency's National Operation Take Back, where police departments in towns across the country are accepting prescription medications that are no longer needed.

Both Freehold Borough and Freehold Township police will be accepting dropoffs.

Freehold Borough police are accepting them from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the lobby at police headquarters at 36 Jackson St., Freehold.

Freehold Township police are accepting them at the police department at 1 Municipal Plaza and also accepting dropoffs at Michael J. Tighe Park, 65 Georgia Road.

The program is anonymous and all efforts will be made to protect the anonymity of individuals disposing of medications. No questions or requests for identification will be made. You will be able to deposit medications freely and independently. Police officers on site will be there solely to maintain and safeguard the integrity of the disposed items.

• You can dispose of medication either in its original container or by removing medication from its container and disposing directly into the drug disposal box. If you bring it in the original container, remove the prescription label and all personal identifying information.
• Liquid products should remain sealed in their original container.
• Syringes and other sharp instruments will not be accepted.

If you know of family members, particularly senior citizens, who have unused and unneeded or expired medications sitting around, share this information with them, as many people do not know they can get rid of medications this way.

For further information, call Freehold Borough Police at 732-462-1234, ext. 107, or Freehold Township police at 732-462-7500.

Photo by Karen Wall, Patch staff