University Police to collect unwanted, expired medications on April 27
Got drugs?
The UWPD is participating in the fourth National Take Back Initiative with the Drug Enforcement Administration on Friday, April 27. To make your home and community a safer place, the UWPD is giving people the opportunity to bring unwanted or expired medications to the police department for safe disposal.
The event normally occurs on a Saturday, but to accommodate the campus community, the UWPD event will be held a day early. Those depositing drugs need only drive up and dump medications into a bucket held by one of the UWPD’s uniformed officers, then drive away. No information will be taken, and the whole process should take less than a minute.
UWPD recommends that medications be transported in plastic bags. No needles, aerosols, or containers will be accepted, and all liquids must be in their original containers.
The drive up/drop off area will be open from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. at 1429 Monroe St., across the street from Camp Randall Stadium. Users are being asked to enter the police parking lot from Monroe Street and exit on to Randall Street. The walk-up lobby will be open from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Americans who participated in the DEA’s drug take-back day last year turned in more than 377,086 pounds (188.5 tons) of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal. Wisconsin turned in 19,820 pounds (9.91 tons) and was second behind New York in the total amount of pharmaceutical drugs collected and destroyed.
For more information on the program, visit www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drug_disposal/takeback.