YCSO to participate in ‘National Prescription Take-Back Day’

The Yuma County Sherrif’s Office is participating in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s ‘National Prescription Take-Back Day’ on Saturday, October 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The event will provide the public the opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse.

The rates of prescription drug abuse in the United States are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs.

Last April, more than 4,600 federal, state and local law enforcement partners took in more than 474 tons (over 949,000 pounds) of unused, expired or unwanted prescription drugs at 5,800 collection sites across the U.S.

The event will be available to the public at 13190 E. South Frontage Road.

The DEA will not accept liquids, needles or sharps, only pills or patches.