MURFREESBORO — The
MTSU campus community and general public are welcome to participate in MTSU’s
next Drug Take-Back Day from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, near the
Campus Pharmacy drive-thru.
To find the drive-thru and drop site on the east side of
campus, a searchable campus parking
map is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParkingMap.
Led by MTSU Public Safety and Campus Pharmacy, officials and
volunteers will be accepting unused or expired medication for safe disposal.
Anyone dropping off medications is asked to leave the
medications in their original packaging. For prescription medicines, black out any personally identifying
information on the label.
If you are
unable to make it to campus during the event, you may also drop off medications
at the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department, located at 940 New Salem
Highway, at any time.
This event
is part of the Drug Enforcement Agency’s overall efforts to remove excess drugs
from communities where they could be abused or misused, diverted into the wrong
hands or disposed of in environmentally unsafe ways.
The
National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day aims to provide a safe, secure, and
environmentally responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while
also educating the general public about the potential for abuse and trafficking
of medications.
Last September,
more than 100 pounds of medicine was collected at this MTSU collection
event! In total, nearly 400 tons of medicines have been disposed of
nationally since take-back collections were initiated in 2010.
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