On Saturday, October 27, people across America will come together to help stem the abuse of prescription medicines by turning in drugs at designated drop-off sites as part of the 16th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.
The event — which is hosted jointly by law enforcement agencies across the nation in addition to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) — seeks to collect unused medicines that could be abused or misused by individuals not bearing the proper physician’s prescription. More than 6 million Americans misuse controlled prescription medications annually, according to the DEA, with most of those abuses stemming from people finding said drugs in the medicine cabinets of their family members or of people that they know.
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