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Sedona Police Department Take-Back Drug Day is September 27, 2014

Sedona Police Department and DEA partner  for Take-Back Drug Day on September 27, 2014 at City Hall

Sedona AZ (September 8, 2014) – On Saturday, September 27, 2014, from 10:00 in the morning until 2:00 in the afternoon, the Sedona Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will provide the public its ninth opportunity in four years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.

Bring your pills for disposal to Sedona City Hall Vultee Conference Room, 102 Roadrunner Drive, west Sedona (the DEA cannot accept liquids or needles or sharps, only pills or patches). The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.

This program is a national initiative so contact your local Sheriff’s department or police department for its 2014 Take Back Drug schedule.

Last April, Americans turned in 390 tons (over 780,000 pounds) of prescription drugs at nearly 6,100 sites operated by the DEA and more than 4,400 of its state and local law enforcement partners. When those results are combined with what was collected in its eight previous Take Back events, DEA and partners have taken in over 4.1 million pounds—more than 2,100 tons—of pills. 

This initiative addresses a vital public safety and public health issue. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet. In addition, Americans are now advised that their usual methods for disposing of unused medicines—flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash—both pose potential safety and health hazards.

DEA is in the process of approving new regulations that implement the Safe and Responsible Drug Disposal Act of 2010, which amends the Controlled Substances Act to allow an “ultimate user” (that is, a patient or their family member or pet owner) of controlled substance medications to dispose of them by delivering them to entities authorized by the Attorney General to accept them. The Act also allows the Attorney General to authorize long term care facilities to dispose of their residents’ controlled substances in certain instances.

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