The MTSU campus community and general public are welcome to participate in the fifth MTSU Drug Take-Back Day from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. today , near the Campus Pharmacy drive-thru. Led by MTSU Public Safety and Campus Pharmacy, officials and volunteers will be accepting unused or expired medication for safe disposal.
Anyone dropping off medications is asked to leave the medications in their original packaging. For prescription medicines, black out any personally identifying information on the label.
Those collecting the medications will be unable to accept sharps (needles) at this event. During the past three years, more than 100 pounds of medicine have been collected at this MTSU collection event. In total, nearly 400 tons of medicines have been disposed of nationally since take-back collections were initiated in 2010.
This event is part of the Drug Enforcement Agency’s overall efforts to remove excess drugs from communities where they could be abused or misused, diverted into the wrong hands or disposed of in environmentally unsafe ways.
