COURT HOUSE– Middle Township Police will be hosting an Operation Take Back New Jersey local collection site as part of the Operation Take Back NJ disposal day.
The event will take place at police headquarters 31 Mechanic Street between the hours of 10AM and 2 PM on Sat., Sept, 25.
This incentive open to all residents, was organized to encourage local community residents to properly depose of their unwanted, unused and expired medications.
Each year, experts say, a growing number of teenagers quietly turn to a seemingly unlikely source to score drugs — their parents’ medicine cabinets. According to the most recent studies, Monitoring the Future, University of Michigan, between 1997 and 2007, treatment admissions for prescription painkillers increased more than 400 percent.1 In addition, between 2004 and 2008, the number of visits to hospital emergency department involving the non- medical use of narcotic painkillers increased 111 percent.
In 2009’s Operation Medicine Cabinet was launched in order to combat the growing problem. More than 400 police departments and other law enforcement agencies throughout New Jersey helped collect 9,000 pounds of old, unwanted pills, pain killers, anti-depressants and other medications in an effort to keep teens from looting their parents’ medicine cabinets. That’s 4.5 tons of medications. If sold on the street, the drugs would have a value of roughly $35 million. This program — the first of its kind in the nation — invited residents to scour their medicine chests for unused, unwanted prescription and over-the-counter drugs and drop them off for disposal.
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