Crime & Safety
National Drug Take-Back Day Comes to Moon
Residents may drop off old and unused prescription medications at the Moon Township Police Department.
Saturday might just be the perfect spring-cleaning day for your medicine cabinet.
will take part in the Drug Enforcement Agency-sponsored National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the township Safety Building at 1000 Beaver Grade Road.
Residents may drop off unused and old prescription drugs at the building's main entrance. Police dispatchers will accept the medication, which can be brought in unlabeled and in any kind of packaging.
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"It's no-questions-asked," said Police Chief Leo McCarthy of the event. "Any time of the year citizens can drop this stuff off and we'll destroy it anyway. But this is a national project to make people aware."
McCarthy said after the event he will transport the medication to the DEA's Pittsburgh offices, where it will be weighed and destroyed.
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"You really want to get [old prescription medications] out of your house," McCarthy said. "You don't want anyone in your home, like children, to be able to get it and be in jepordy. It wouldn't be hard for you to find a lot of horror stories related to that."
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