Unwanted Medication Disposal Day

Rep Tom Golden has been spearheading the issue of the dangers of uncontrolled Prescription Drugs for the last few months.

Lowell Health Department Meds Drop off day

Old medications around the house often turn into a source of illegal activity among youth.

Also, many medications as they get older lose their potency, or even change toxicity.

Dracut’s Board of Health is promoting the “Unwanted Medication Disposal” day being run by the Lowell Health Department.

Help protect the people we love and the environment we live in by disposing your unwanted medication properly. Old medications expire and are often forgotten. These medications remain in medicine cabinets, drawers or on counter tops where anyone, including children, can take them.  Teens report that the most common place they get drugs is from home or family members.  Disposing of unwanted medication by flushing it down the toilet can find its way into water supplies.

Drug residues have been found in surface water, such as rivers and lakes and in some community drinking water supplies.  On October 15th we had the first unwanted medication disposal and it went great.  A lot of medications were turned in.  On January 5th we had our second we tripled the amount of medications turned in.  Thank you to everyone who brought in medication!

Our next drop off date at the Health Department will be March 31st, from 2:00PM to 7:00OPM.  Please take all information off of the prescription bottles or place medications in a zip lock bag.  For sharps, please place in waterproof sealed container (such as a bleach container).

In additional the Lowell Regional Wastewater Utility holds a monthly drop off for Sharps (no medication can be accepted here) on every 4th Saturday of the month.  This program is combined with the monthly motor oil and mercury thermometer drop off.  The address is 451 First St. Blvd (route 110) in Lowell and is held from 8:00 AM to Noon.

On Wednesday, March 31, from 2:00 p.m. through 7:00 p.m. you can bring your old medicines, needles and lancets to their office at 341 Pine Street for safe disposal.

For further info: (978) 970 4010 ext  94304