It’s time for spring cleaning. The Annual Prescription Drug Take Back has returned! On Saturday, April 30, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Fairfield Police Department in partnership with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will collect and dispose of expired, unused, and unwanted prescription medications.
This is an opportunity for the public to help prevent pill abuse by safely discarding of their medications at this take back event.
This is a Drive-Thru event in the visitors parking lot of the Police Station and City Hall, located at 1000 Webster St. Please follow the directions of police staff on-site.
Please bring your unwanted prescriptions for disposal to the Fairfield Police Department at 1000 Webster St. This year, the DEA will collect vape pens or other e-cigarette devices from individual consumers only after the batteries are removed from the devices. It is important to stress that the DEA and or the police are not responsible for removing the batteries from the devices. (Site cannot accept needles or sharps, only pills or patches, liquids). Please be sure all medications are sealed tightly in a Ziploc bag. The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.
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 United States are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs.
In addition to DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, there are many other ways to dispose of unwanted prescription drugs every day, including the 11,000 authorized collectors that are available all year long. For more information, visit DEA’s year-round collection site locator.
The FDA also provides information on how to properly dispose of prescription drugs. More information is available here: https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/where-and-how-dispose-unused-medicines.
For more information, please contact Fairfield Police Department’s Crime Prevention Unit via email: [email protected] or call 707.428.7789
