The Wake Forest Police Department will partner with the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), Safe Kids North Carolina, and Riverkeepers of NC to sponsor Operation Medicine Drop on Saturday, March 15.
The police department will host the medicine drop-off event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. inside the ground floor meeting room of the Wake Forest Town Hall at 301 S. Brooks St. The room is most easily accessed via town hall’s Taylor Street entrance.
The police department offers Operation Medicine Drop as a prescription and over-the-counter medication take back initiative that promotes proper medication disposal. By providing a safe and secure way for people to get rid of unwanted pills, tablets and other medications, Operation Medicine Drop helps prevent accidental poisonings and drug abuse while also protecting local rivers and streams. The grassroots effort is a partnership of Riverkeepers of NC, Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of NC, and local law enforcement agencies.
Participants can help law enforcement officials properly identify and sort the medications by disposing expired, unused or unwanted medicine in its original container with the drug label intact. All of the medications collected during the drop-off event will be secured by law enforcement and destroyed by incineration.
This marks the sixth medication take back initiative sponsored by the Wake Forest Police Department. Altogether, the department has collected well over 100,000 dosage units of medication.
For more information on the March 15 Operation Medicine Drop, contact Det. Adam Carlson at 919-554-6150 or acarlson@wakeforestnc.gov.
