The Pickens County Sheriff Department Wants Your Unused Drugs

Law enforcement agencies across the country will help families make their homes safer this Saturday by disposing of your unused prescription drugs.

Saturday is National Pill Take-Back Day and police and hospitals all over the country will join forces to help take hundreds of unused prescription drugs out of America's medicine cabinets.

The last pill take-back day was April 30 and 46 pounds of prescription medications were collected in the county, according to the Pickens County Sheriff's Department. In the state of South Carolina over 1,200 pounds were turned in and nationally the figure was 121 tons.

"Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse," Pickens County Sheriff David Stone said. "Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high with the majority of prescription drugs coming from family and friends, including home medicine cabinets."

On Saturday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. residents can get rid of their unused prescription drugs at Baptist Easley Hospital located at 202 Fleetwood Drive in Easley. A second location will be at Cannon Memorial Hospital at 123 Acker Drive in Pickens.

For more information contact the Pickens County Sheriff's office at 864-898-5500.