Operation Take Back Planned In Morris County On April 24

MORRISTOWN, NJ — Do you have any unused, unwanted, or expired prescription medicine laying around?

Residents of Morris County will be able to drop them off during Operation Take Back on April 24 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., according to the Morris County Prosecutor's Office.

The semi-annual event will be held at four shopping locations in Randolph, Cedar Knolls, Morris Plains, and Hanover, where the public will be able to anonymously turn over any prescription medicine they want to get rid of.

Authorities will afterward collect the discarded prescription drugs and properly destroy them.

The locations are the following:

ACME Supermarket
690 Millbrook Ave.
Randolph, New Jersey 07869

Shoprite of Greater Morristown
178 East Hanover Ave.
Cedar Knolls, New Jersey 07927

Stop and Shop Supermarket
245 Littleton Rd./US 202
Morris Plains, New Jersey 07950

Wegmans
34 Sylvan Way
Hanover, New Jersey 07054

The initiative, which is also held in other communities across the US by local law enforcement agencies in tandem with the Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), aims to reduce abuse and misuse of pharmaceutical drugs, by encouraging the public to turn them over.

"This operation has proven to be extraordinarily successful in helping to prevent the misuse of addictive pharmaceutical drugs," Acting Prosecutor Robert Carroll and Sheriff James Gannon said, in a joint press release.

Before or after the event, the public can also turn over unwanted prescription drugs by using one of the permanent drop box locations listed here.