“National Prescription Drug Take Back Day” Saturday, April 30, 2011

The Woodbridge Police Department (WPD) will participate in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA’s) second annual “National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day” on Saturday, April 30, 2011.  The program, geared to prevent prescription drug abuse, is FREE and will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the WPD Headquarters located at Town Hall, One Main Street, Woodbridge.

According to Woodbridge Police Director Robert Hubner, the WPD will collect expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs that are potentially dangerous if left in the family’s medicine cabinet.  Law enforcement investigations have determined that medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse and that individuals that abuse prescription drugs often obtained them from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet.

According to the DEA, more than 242,000 pounds - 121 tons - of prescription drugs were collected at nearly 4,100 sites operated by more than 3,000 state and local law enforcement agencies last September.

Woodbridge residents should bring unused and expired prescription drugs (if possible in the original prescription container) to the WPD located in the lower lobby, Town Hall, One Main Street.  For more information contact the WPD at 732-634-7700.