YPD joins forces with DEA for National Take Back Initiative

The Yuma Police Department is joining forces with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to offer the public an opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft.

YPD and DEA will be allowing the community to rid their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.

This initiative helps with vital public safety and public health issue. Medicines that waste away in home cabinets are highly prone to diversion, misuse, and abuse.

Bring your pills for disposal to the Yuma Police Department located at 1500 S 1st Avenue on Saturday, Oct. 28th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The service is free and you can remain anonymous. You can pull into the police department’s parking lot and drop off your unwanted prescription drugs.

You are encouraged to remove your personal information from the prescription labels, but not mandatory.

Participants may dispose of medication in its original container or by removing the medication from its container and disposing of it directly into the disposal box.

All expired or unwanted controlled, non-controlled, and over the counter medicines are accepted.

Liquid products, such as cough syrup are not accepted by DEA, however, the Yuma Police Department does accept it in their local drop-off prescription program.

Liquid products should remain sealed in their original plastic container.

The following items will not be accepted: glass containers, Intra-venous solutions, injectables, syringes, inhalers and illegal substances such as marijuana or methamphetamines.