UBHCHY Coalition is hosting a prescription drug take back day on April 30th from 10:00am-2:00pm. The event is supported by the DEA, Bucks County Commissioners, Bucks County Sheriff’s Department, the Bucks County Area Agency on Aging, Bucks Promise and the Bucks County Drug and Alcohol Commission. All of these agencies have joined together again in this effort. Local police departments will handle the medications at the drop off stations. Also, local pharmacies will be helping to advertise this event by putting notices in their prescription bags during the month of April.
When? April 30 from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Where?
Dublin Shop N Bag
(161 North Main Street, Dublin)
Grandview Hospital Outpatient Center
(915 Lawn Avenue, Sellersville)
Hilltown Township Police Department
(13 West Creamery Road and Route 152, Hilltown)
Perkasie Police Department
(311 South 9th Street, Perkasie)
Richland Township Police Department
(229 California Road, Quakertown)
Springfield Elementary School
(1950 Route 212, Quakertown)
St. Luke’s Quakertown Hospital in parking lot behind hospital
(1021 Park Avenue, Quakertown)
Why? It is NOT acceptable to flush drugs of any kind down the drain. Sewage treatment plants do not have the capacity to remove the chemicals found in the drugs and more and more of these chemicals are being found in our drinking water.
Also, we have found that about 70% of the people who illegally use prescription drugs get them from family members or friends. Usually they come from leftover and outdated bottles found in medicine cabinets.
At the first two prescription drug take back days in September and November 2010, over 2,000 pounds of prescription drugs were collected in Buck County alone. The effort in Bucks was by far the most successful in the State of Pennsylvania.
