RAPID CITY, S.D. – If you don’t take away unneeded pharmaceuticals from your residence, they might discover a new one. A house that might probably result in an overdose.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will maintain its 22nd National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at quite a lot of assortment websites all through the Black Hills area. This biannual occasion working intently with regulation enforcement gives free, nameless disposal of unneeded drugs.
” It’s an excellent occasion in that we will filter out medicine cupboards of undesirable or unused pharmaceuticals. If you have a look at people who abuse opioids most of them began by taking pharmaceuticals. So it is a nice option to sort of take them away from these people so hopefully, it received’t get them began down that abuse path,” stated the DEA Omaha Diversion Program Manager, Dan McCormick.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that within the United States, greater than 106,000 folks died as the results of a drug overdose within the 12-month interval ending November 2021, marking essentially the most drug-related deaths ever recorded, with opioid-related deaths accounting for 75 p.c of all overdose deaths.
The DEA Drug Take Back Day has eliminated greater than 15 million kilos of medicine from circulation since its inception, serving to fight the overdose epidemic within the United States. Collected medication are incinerated by the DEA.
“Last spring once we did it in South Dakota it was roughly 1,500 kilos that we collected and total since we’ve been doing this system in South Dakota it’s roughly 30,000 kilos,” stated McCormick.
The DEA will acquire drugs, tablets, capsules, patches and different strong types of pharmaceuticals, in addition to, vaping gadgets and cartridges so long as the lithium batteries have been eliminated. Liquids, syringes and different sharps, and illicit medication is not going to be accepted.
The DEA Drug Take Back drop off places on the Rapid City, Spearfish, Chadron and Lusk Police Departments, Lawrence County Sheriffs Office, and on the Ogalala Sioux Tribe Jail and Justice Center.
Year-round receptacles can be found on the following places:
- Veterans Administration medical facilities at Ft. Meade and Hot Springs.
- CVS Pharmacy, 1415 Eglin St., Rapid City
- B&L Inc., 909 E. St. Patrick St., Rapid City
- The Medicine Shoppe, 1304 Mt. Rushmore Rd., Rapid City
- Walgreens, 1902 Mt. Rushmore Rd., Rapid City
- Boyds Drug Mart, 655 Mountain View Rd., Rapid City
- Boyds Drug RX Express, 2650 Mt. Rushmore Rd., Rapid City
- Oyate Health Center, 3200 Canyon Lake Dr., Rapid City
- U.S. Air Force 28 Medical Group, 2900 Doolittle Dr, Ellsworth Air Force Base
- Monument Health Sturgis Hospital Pharmacy, 2140 Junction Ave., Sturgis
- Monument Health Custer Hospital, 1220 Montgomery St., Custer
- Monument Health Lead/Deadwood Hospital, 61 Charles St., Deadwood
- Fall River Health Services, 1201 Highway 71 S, Hot Springs
- Monument Health Spearfish Hospital, 1440 N Main St., Spearfish
- Prairie Hills Pharmacy, 319 Summit St, Belle Fourche
- Weston County Pharmacy, 1124 Washington Blvd., Newcastle, W.Y.
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