Police Offer Safe Way to Dispose of Unwanted and Expired Medications

The will take part once again in the DEA “Operation Take Back,” a program which provides residents with a safe and legal way of disposing unwanted, unused and expired medications.

The event will be held at the municipal building Saturday, Oct. 29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The goal of the program is to allow the citizens of NJ to deliver all of their unused, unwanted, or expired medications to law enforcement officials who can in turn dispose of these controlled substances in a safe and non-hazardous manner, preventing these pills from falling into the hands of juveniles or into the illicit market in our communities.

Each year a growing number of teenagers quietly turn to a seemingly unlikely source to score drugs—their parents and family members medicine cabinets.

According to most recent studies, between 1997 and 2007, treatment for prescription painkillers increased more that 400 percent, and between 2004 and 2008 the number of visits to hospital emergency rooms involving the non-medical use of narcotic painkillers increased 111 percent.