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April 28 Is Drug Take-Back Day

April 28 is National Pharmaceutical Take-Back Day. The day highlights the critical need for ongoing and sustainable safe drug disposal programs.

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Why Take Back Your Meds?

 

Safe disposal to reduce medicines in the environment. Large amounts of powerful medicines go unused or expire and the way we dispose of them makes a difference for our waters and our environment. For years, the advice was to flush our drugs or mix them with kitty litter and throw them in the garbage. Flushing drugs sends them directly into our waters, harming the environment.  Drugs thrown in the garbage are available for others to take and use, and can still get into the environment.  Returning medicines to a take-back program is the only environmentally sound method for disposing of unused medicines.

Other reasons

Safe disposal to reduce drug abuse.

 

Safe disposal to reduce accidental poisonings.

Learn what health organizations, police, drugstores, local governments, environmental groups, and others in Washington State are doing to confront this problem.