Community Assistance Needed to Continue Purge Your Pills Rx Drop Off Days

Community Assistance Needed to Continue Purge Your Pills Rx Drop Off Days 

For the past several years, StandUP Polk and local law enforcement agencies have partnered with The Drug Enforcement Administration for National Prescription Drug Take-Back Days in the spring and fall for citizens to dispose of expired unwanted prescription drugs. Prescription medication collections held since 2010 in Polk County have resulted in 6,483 pounds of recovered pharmaceuticals safely disposed of via incineration.

Unfortunately, the DEA has recently announced that they have discontinued the National Take-Back Days. Because this issue is so vital in helping to keep Polk County safe, StandUP Polk and local law enforcement agencies have been meeting to brainstorm ways to continue this important effort to get powerful medications out of residents’ medicine cabinets and provide an environmentally safe means of disposal.

Your help is needed to assist us in raising much-needed funding for the incineration of medications collected at the permanent drop boxes located in the lobbies of 5 local law enforcement agencies in our county. 

In the past, the cost for incineration of collected medications was provided by DEA on take-back days.  Without the resources of the DEA now, Polk County does not have the option or funds for transportation or incineration.  Please contact Juli Davis, StandUP Polk Coordinator, at (863) 802-0777 or by email at: juli.davis@inneractalliance.org if you have a contact who may be interested in funding this important community project!