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Prescription Drug-Take-Back Event

April 30, 2016

 

The public will have an opportunity to rid their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted medications at the upcoming drug-take-back event. Tulsans can bring their medications for proper disposal to one of the following four locations on

 

  • 71st and Sheridan Reasor's parking lot, 7114 S. Sheridan Rd

  • 41st and Garnett Reasor's parking lot, 11005 E. 41st St.

  • The M.e.t. (Metropolitan Environmental Trust) 1101 S. Cincinnati Ave. (East side of Cincinnati & South 11th St)

  • 51st and Peoria Walgreen’s parking lot- 5115 S. Peoria Ave.

 

This service is free and anonymous.

Law enforcement agents will be on site and medications will be sent to an incinerator for disposal. Citizens can also take unwanted prescription drugs to one of the three Tulsa Police Division headquarters and to the Tulsa County Sheriff’s office.

 

Those locations and hours include:

  • Tulsa Police Gilcrease Division, 3436 N. Delaware Ave., 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. Monday - Friday

  • Tulsa Police Mingo Valley Division, 10122 E. 11th St., 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday - Friday

  • Tulsa Police Riverside Division, 7515 S. Riverside Drive, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday - Friday

  • Tulsa County Sheriff – 303 W. 1st St., 8 a.m. – 4:15 p.m Monday - Friday.

 

The drug-take-back 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 United States 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 through family and friends from the home medicine cabinet.

In addition, methods for disposing of unused medicines such as, flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash, pose potential environmental, health, and safety hazards.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is implementing new regulations and revisions to the Safe & Responsible Drug Disposal Act of 2010 to allow citizens to dispose of controlled substance medications to be disposed of by delivering them to entities authorized to accept them.

The Tulsa drug-take-back event is a joint effort of the City of Tulsa Water & Sewer Department, Tulsa County Social Services, Tulsa County Medical Society, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Tulsa Police Department.

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