How Drug Take Back Day can be more impactful this year Tags: At a collection site outside of CVS near the Towers Shopping Center in Roanoke, 7 full boxes of medications were collected Saturday. (Copyright 2020 by WSLS 10 - All rights reserved.) ROANOKE, Va. – In an effort to combat the ongoing opioid crisis, volunteers collected unused or expired prescription medications on National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Rather than flush pills down the toilet and pollute waterways, thousands of drug take back sites collected bottles of drugs. People gathered outside a CVS near Tower Shopping Center in Roanoke and unloaded full bags of medications.