Credit: Montgomery County District Attorney's Office
All county residents are encouraged to clear their homes of unwanted prescription and over-the-counter medications.
Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele and Springfield Township Police Chief Michael E. Pitkow, the president of the Police Chiefs Association of Montgomery County, announce that the fall Drug Take Back Day will take place 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024, at numerous locations across Montgomery County.
All county residents are encouraged to clear their homes of unwanted prescription and over-the-counter medications. Since the Drug Take Back program began in 2010, more than 126,000 pounds of medicines have been collected and safely disposed of.
Typically, about 40-45 police departments serve as drop-off sites for Drug Take Back Day, including several grocery store locations staffed by police officers. The complete list of drop-off locations will be released closer to the event’s date and will be listed on the District Attorney’s website at www.montgomerycountypa.gov/DA
Check out a list here of year-round drug dropoff sites.
Accepted during Drug Take Back Day—and throughout the year at permanent MedReturn boxes—are prescription and over-the-counter tablets and capsules, inhalers, creams, ointments, nasal sprays, pet medicines and vaping products. Not accepted are needles, liquid medications and intravenous or injectable solutions.
If residents can’t make it to Drug Take Back Day, unwanted medications can be dropped off and disposed of throughout the year at more than 50 permanent prescription drug disposal boxes, most of which are located at police departments. Some of these boxes were sponsored by the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association and some by Pennsylvania American Water in an effort to help keep our water supply safe.
