Medication Disposal Box Now Available at Chelmsford Police Station

We all have them: medicine bottles containing a handful of pills and carrying an embarrassingly long ago expiration date.

The Chelmsford Police Department doesn’t want those unused and expired medicines hanging out in your medicine cabinet waiting for a child to find them or a for someone to abuse them.

“The #1 place teens report getting drugs for the first time is in the family medicine cabinet,” according to a release from the town. “Unused prescription medications are often forgotten about, stolen and sold on the streets.”

And, contrary to long-held belief, flushing old pills is neither safe nor environmentally responsible since, “Drug residues have been found in rivers, lakes and our drinking water.”

Enter the 24/7 medication disposal box now available at the Chelmsford Police Department.

Residents can seal their unused pills in a flattened plastic baggie no thicker than two slices of bread. The baggies can then be dropped off, no questions asked, in the disposal kiosk at the police station.

This disposal option is for pills ONLY; no sharps/needles or liquid medicines should be dropped off.