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The Drug Take-Back Day goal is to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposal of prescription medications, while educating the public about the potential for abuse of medications. Unused prescription medications in homes create a public health and safety concern, because they can be accidentally ingested, stolen, misused, and abused.
Unused or expired medicine should never be flushed or poured down the drain. Removing potentially dangerous pharmaceutical substances from medicine cabinets helps to prevent them from going into our water supply.
Bring: Prescription (controlled and non-controlled) and over-the-counter medications, ointments, patches, non-aerosol sprays, inhalers, creams, vials and pet medications. Simply put your medications in a resealable plastic bag.
Do Not Bring: Illegal drugs, needles/sharps, aerosol cans, bio-hazardous materials (anything containing a bodily fluid or blood), mercury thermometers, personal care products (shampoo, soaps, lotions, sunscreens, etc…), household hazardous waste (paint, pesticides, oil, gas)
| Drug Take Back Events – April 24, 2021 Location/Address | Time |
|---|---|
| Cross Plains Police Dept., 2417 Brewery Rd. | 10am-2pm |
| Deerfield Police Dept., 7 W. Deerfield St. | 9am-2pm |
| DeForest Police Dept., 110 South Stevenson Street | 10am-2pm |
| Madison: Elver Park parking lot, 1201 McKenna Blvd. | 10am-1pm |
| Madison: Mt. Zion Baptist Church parking lot, 2029 Fisher St. | 10am-1pm |
| Madison: Warner Park parking lot, 2930 N. Sherman Ave | 10am-1pm |
| Madison: East Campus Mall, UW Campus | 10am-2pm |
| Mazomanie Police Dept., 133 Crescent St. | 11am-1pm |
| Monona: Medicine Shoppe, 4205 Monona Dr. | 9am-1pm |
| Mt. Horeb Police Dept., 400 Blue Mounds St. | 10am-2pm |
| Oregon Police Dept., 383 Park St. | 10am-2pm |
| Stoughton Fire Station, 401 E. Main St. | 9am-11am |
| Sun Prairie East District Police Station, 300 E. Main St. | 10am-4pm |
| Verona Police Dept./City Hall, 111 Lincoln St. | 9am-2pm |
| Waunakee Police Dept., 205 Klein Dr. | 10am-2pm |
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Leftover and expired prescriptions and over-the-counter medicines can be found in every household in the county. Last year unintentional poisonings killed more Dane County residents than automobile crashes. Misuse or abuse of prescription, over-the-counter or illicit drugs are the major cause. Pain medication when misused, can be especially fatal.
Always be sure to:
How to Use MedDrop
*Illegal drugs cannot be disposed of in the drop box. However, you may bring illegal drugs to the police station and turn them over to authorities, no questions asked.
**MedDrop locations hosted outside of a Police Department have different restrictions on medications and items they will collect. Please call the location to verify.
Do Not Bring
If MedDrop is Not Available
MedDrop is the best way to dispose of medicines, or pharmaceuticals. If MedDrop is not available, do not flush your unused pharmaceuticals. Instead, dispose of them in the trash. Especially when there is a risk of accidental poisoning, overdose or diversion, it is better to dispose of household pharmaceuticals rather than keep them. When placing unused pharmaceuticals in the trash, be sure to:
Remove or mark over all labels that identify the materials as pharmaceuticals or that could provide personal information about you, including prescription information that someone could try to refill;
Render them unattractive to children and thieves by dissolving them in a small amount of water or alcohol, or by grinding them up and mixing them with coffee grounds or kitty litter; and
Put them in a second container or small plastic bag and hide them in your trash.
Benefits of Using MedDrop
A safe, secure way to dispose of unwanted medications which could unintentionally be consumed by children and others, or be scavenged from the trash and sold illegally.
Medicines collected at the MedDrop locations are incinerated and disposed of in the most environmentally safe method currently available. MedDrop disposal reduces the amount of improperly disposed medicine that can eventually contaminate area rivers, lakes and streams.
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