Bridging Health Duluth and WLSSD Host Drug Take Back Event at St. Luke's
Posted on Oct 25, 2018
By St. Luke's, Duluth
Saturday, October 27, is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. But
there are now two more locations – in Duluth and Two Harbors, where
people can properly dispose of old medications every day. Today, Bridging
Health Duluth and WLSSD hosted an event at St. Luke’s to highlight
the new locations and demonstrate just how easy safe disposal is.
By working together, the groups are hoping to keep unused or expired drugs
out of the wrong hands, prevent accidental poisoning and drug abuse, keep
them out of landfills, and out of rivers and streams. All become a possibility
when old and unused medications are left to linger in medicine cabinets.
Today, Bridging Health Duluth members and WLSSD held an event at the newest
medicine drop-off location in Duluth – St. Luke’s Northland
Pharmacy. St. Luke’s has also recently added a drug take back box
at its Lake View Pharmacy. These are the 16th and 17th locations in the Twin Ports where people can drop off unwanted drugs.
Many drug take-back boxes look very similar to a library book drop. Some
locations are open
every single day of the year. Drug take back boxes can be found at Essentia Pharmacies, Walgreens and
CVS Pharmacies near Leif Erikson Park, the Duluth, Hermantown, Proctor
and Superior Police Departments, and now at St. Luke’s Lake View
Pharmacy and Northland Pharmacy.
The boxes are made to safely dispose of unused or expired prescriptions,
over-the-counter medication and pet medication. To use them, remove identifying
information from unwanted medications and take them to a drug take back
box near you.
For a list of places across the region offering drug take back boxes see
the attached handout or visit
www.wlssd.com/education/pollution-prevention/medicine.
BELOW: Drug Take Back Box