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DEA Drug Take Back Day October 24th, 10 AM to 2 PM at the Cloverdale Police Department
The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.
Americans nationwide did their part to drop off a record number of unused, unwanted, or expired prescription medications during the DEA’s 18th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, at 6,174 sites across the country. Together with a record-setting amount of local, state, and federal partners, DEA collected and destroyed close to one million pounds-nearly 441.5 tons-of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
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.
“National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is a day for every American, in every community across the country, to come together and do his or her part to fight the opioid crisis - simply by disposing of unwanted prescription medications from their medicine cabinets,” said DEA Acting Administrator Robert W. Patterson. “This event brings us together with local, state, and federal partners to fight the abuse of prescription drugs that is fueling the nation’s opioid epidemic.”
DEA launched its prescription drug take back program when both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration advised the public that their usual methods for disposing of unused medicines-flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash-posed potential safety and health hazards. Helping people to dispose of potentially harmful prescription drugs is just one way DEA is working to reduce the addiction and overdose deaths plaguing this country due to opioid medications. Complete results for DEA’s spring Take Back Day are available at https://takebackday.dea.gov/.\
DEA Drug Take Back Day October 24th, 10 AM to 2 PM at the Cloverdale Police Department 
On Saturday, October 24, 2020, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Cloverdale Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public an opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. Bring your medications for disposal to any of the following locations:
- Cloverdale Police Department, 112 Broad Street, Cloverdale, CA 95425 (Primary drop off)
The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.
Americans nationwide did their part to drop off a record number of unused, unwanted, or expired prescription medications during the DEA’s 18th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, at 6,174 sites across the country. Together with a record-setting amount of local, state, and federal partners, DEA collected and destroyed close to one million pounds-nearly 441.5 tons-of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
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.
“National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is a day for every American, in every community across the country, to come together and do his or her part to fight the opioid crisis - simply by disposing of unwanted prescription medications from their medicine cabinets,” said DEA Acting Administrator Robert W. Patterson. “This event brings us together with local, state, and federal partners to fight the abuse of prescription drugs that is fueling the nation’s opioid epidemic.”
DEA launched its prescription drug take back program when both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration advised the public that their usual methods for disposing of unused medicines-flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash-posed potential safety and health hazards. Helping people to dispose of potentially harmful prescription drugs is just one way DEA is working to reduce the addiction and overdose deaths plaguing this country due to opioid medications. Complete results for DEA’s spring Take Back Day are available at https://takebackday.dea.gov/.\
Address/Location
Cloverdale Police Department
112 Broad St
Cloverdale, CA 95425
Contact
Emergency: 9-1-1
Non-emergencies: 707-894-2150