Milpitas Police Plan To Take Your Drugs

MILPITAS, CA -- Here's a chance to give up your drugs to police without a second look.

The Milpitas Police Department and Drug Enforcement Administration will take potentially
dangerous, expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding homes of these drugs.

The event is set from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on April 27 at the police station at 1275 N. Milpitas Blvd in Milpitas.

Last October, citizens turned in more than 200 pounds of prescriptions and over-the-counter drugs to Milpitas Police. Overall, Americans turned in more than 450 tons at more than 5,800 sites operated by the DEA and its thousands of state and local law enforcement partners.

The service is free.

The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative continues to collect increasing amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes where they may be vulnerable to misuse, theft or abuse. In continuation of this effort, federal Drug Enforcement Agency and its national, tribal and community partners will hold the 17th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day across the nation.

Now in its ninth year, DEA San Francisco Division has collected a total of nearly 233 tons of expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications from Northern California and Central Valley residents through its Take Back Day events. This weekend, nearly 140 collection sites manned by nearly 90 partner law enforcement agencies will be open.

The public can find a nearby collection site at www.DEATakeBack.com or by calling 800-882-9539.

“The abuse of prescription drugs is America’s fastest-growing drug problem, and too many people are dying or being seriously injured by the misuse of such drugs,” U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott said. “Young people are particularly at risk. Since people who abuse prescription drugs may get them from family members or friends, it is imperative that we all take steps to dispose of drugs that are no longer needed.”

Rates of prescription drug abuse in the United States are alarmingly high.