NATIONAL PRESCRIPTION DRUG TAKE BACK DAY APRIL 22, 2023

Lancaster, CA.-Why take your medications to a drug take back program?

*Medicine take-back programs are the only secure and environmentally sound way to dispose of leftover and expired medicines.

*Take-back programs use secure equipment and procedures to prevent theft or diversion.

*Collected medicines are destroyed in a way that protects our environment.

* Unwanted medicines are deposited in metal collection bins that have been specially designed to prevent theft. When unwanted medicines are deposited into the bin they drop into a plastic bucket or cardboard box. When that inner container is full, trained staff follows strict procedures to seal the box and send it to a secure storage facility. Once a shipment of boxes has accumulated in a secure storage area, the waste medicines are sent to a disposal facility, where they are destroyed by high temperature incineration.

* When you discard medicines this way, they don’t end up in a bowl on a coffee table to be “taken” as a dare or a sport by party goers.

Doing some spring cleaning and clearing out your medicine cabinet? Stop before you flush old or unwanted prescription or over-the-counter medications down the toilet or drain. These pharmaceuticals can pollute our water and unintentionally expose us to the chemicals in these medications.

Studies have found that medicines flushed down the drain can contaminate our lakes and streams, which can hurt fish and other aquatic wildlife, and end up in our drinking water. Flushed into septic systems are just as dangerous.

Please come to the drug take back with your meds.

April 22, 2023

10:00am to 2:00pm

DROP OFF LOCATION: Kaiser Permanente

615 West Avenue L – Lancaster