Crime & Safety
Liquid, Cream Swampscott Police Drug Take Back In October
The city urges residents to check their cabinets for outdated and unused medications to be safely disposed of this month.
SWAMPSCOTT, MA — The Swampscott Police Department will be accepting liquid and cream medications for disposal this month as part of DEA National Rx Take Back Day.
Medications may be dropped off at the police station in their original packaging and placed in a plastic bag. Police will also accept any pill medication as well as pet medication.
No needles or sharps will be accepted.
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The Swampscott Police Department has a disposal box at the CVS year-round but only pill-form medication is accepted there regularly.
Residents are urged to bring their medications for safe disposal as old medications can get into the wrong hands in the household and into groundwater supplies if placed in the trash or flushed down the toilet.
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Those with questions are invited to call the station at 781-595-1111.
(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)
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