National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is Saturday, April 24
National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day is Saturday, April 24 (Source: WLBT)
By WLBT Digital | April 21, 2021 at 1:44 PM CDT - Updated April 22 at 7:43 AM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - It’s time to do some Spring cleaning in your medicine cabinet.
Saturday, April 24, is National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day and the Drug Enforcement Agency wants you to drop off any potentially dangerous prescription medications.
The DEA’s October 2020 Take Back Day brought in a record-high amount of expired, unused prescription medications, with the public turning in close to 500 tons of unwanted drugs.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. has seen an increase in overdose deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 87,200 Americans dying as a result of a drug overdose in a one-year period (Sept. 1, 2019 to Sept. 1, 2020), the most ever recorded in a 12-month period.