Full Notification

The Ontario Police Department in partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public its 19th opportunity in over ten years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, or unwanted prescripti on drugs. Bring your pills for disposal on Saturday, October 24th, 2020, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to any one of the below listed collection sites. The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.

Last October, the public turned in nearly 883,000 pounds 441.5 tons of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs for disposal at close to 6,200 collection sites all across the country. This brings the total amount of prescription drugs collected by DEA since the fall of 2010 to 12,699,456 pounds or 6,349.7 tons.

Unused or expired prescription medications are a public safety issue, leading to potential accidental poisoning, misuse, and ove rdose. Proper disposal of unused drugs saves lives and protects the environment. This initiative addresses a vital public safety and public he alth issue. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of prescription drug a bus e 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. Also, 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.

The Ontario Police Department will have fou r (4) stations participating with the collection of these unused prescription medications. They will be open on Saturday, October 24th, from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. and no appointment is necessary. The participating sites are lis ted below:

Ontario Police Department
2500 S. Archibald Av, Ontario Ca 91761
Phone 909 395 2001

Kaiser Permanente Ontario Medical Center
2295 S Vineyard Ave, bldg b Ontario, CA
Phone (909) 724 5000

Sam's club Pharmacy 6619
951 N. Milliken Avenue, Ontario CA 91764
Phone 909 476 9083

Ontario Senior Center
225 E B Street, Ontario CA 91764
Phone 909 395 2371

We encourage every citizen to look in their homes for any old, unused prescription medication and bring them to one of the listed collection sites for disposal. For more information about the disposal of prescription drugs or about the October 26th Take Back Day event, go to https://www.dea.gov/ [dea.gov] and click on DEA National RX Take Back.