(Friday, April 29, HealthDay News) — Americans can transform into unused drugs to more than 4,700 sites nationwide Saturday in National Prescription Drug recovery day of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
The free event, held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., local time, allows people to decide safely expired prescription drugs, not used and not desired that could be stolen and misused if left in a medicine cabinet House.
Collection sites by going to the site Web of DEA (www.dea.gov) and clicking on the banner "got drugs?" can be found. You can search for your site collection closet by postal code, city or County.
More Americans abuse prescription than cocaine, hallucinogenic drugs and heroin combined, according to the national survey of substance abuse and health 2009. Studies show that drugs are often obtained from family and friends.
Last year, more than 242,000 pounds--121 tons - of drugs were collected to 4 100 sites by the Government, community, public health and partners of the law, according to a DEA press release.
"Not only the overwhelming public response to first nationwide resumption, the DEA last fall event removes potentially dangerous drug houses, but has been an unprecedented opportunity to inform everyone on the growing problem of prescription drug abuse""," DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart has stated in a press release agency.
"Studies have shown that, for many, prescription drugs are the first drugs that they abuse and too often they are not the last." This is why we are committed to helping the Americans to protect their homes by ridding their expired medicine cabinets, not used and unwanted medicines, ", she added."
More information
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has more on the safe disposal of drugs.
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