On Sept. 26, Hackettstown area residents will be able to dispose of unwanted or expired medicine safely.
The Hackettstown Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration is offering the public its 10th opportunity in five years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
The public is invited to bring your pills for disposal to the Hackettstown Municipal Building at 215 Stiger St. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 26.
(The DEA cannot accept liquids or needles or sharps, only pills or patches.) The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.
Last September, Americans turned in 309 tons (over 617,000 pounds) of prescription drugs at nearly 5,500 sites operated by the DEA and more than 4,000 of its state and local law enforcement partners. When those results are combined with what was collected in its eight previous take-back events, DEA and its partners have taken in over 4.8 million pounds--more than 2,400 tons--of pills.
