Community Corner
Drug Take Back Day!
Participate for a chance to win a $25.00 gift card by bringing your unused, expired medications to the Lindenhurst Rainbow Center!
Lindenhurst Community Cares Coalition and the 1stPrecinct Police Officers are taking back unwanted prescription drugs April 25th 10AM- 3PM at the Lindenhurst Rainbow Center Open House!
Lindenhurst, NY – On Thursday, April 25, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the Lindy Cares Coalition will be at the Rainbow Center Open House Event to give the general public an opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. Bring your pills for disposal to the Rainbow Center, 293 Buffalo Avenue, Lindenhurst NY. The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked. All who participate will be eligible to be entered into a drawing for a $25.00 Cash Gift Card. Drawing will take place at our 2nd Take Back Day at the Town of Babylon Earth Day Event on May 4th from 11:00 am to 2:pm at the Babylon Town Hall on Sunrise Highway. (You need not be present to win!) So get rid of those old meds that you are never going to use anyway!
Last fall Americans turned in nearly 460 tons (more than 900,000 pounds) of prescription drugs at more than 5,800 sites operated by the DEA and almost 4,800 of its state and local law enforcement partners. Overall, in its 16 previous Take Back events, DEA and its partners have taken in almost 11 million pounds—nearly 5,500 tons—of pills.
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This initiative addresses a vital public safety and public health issue. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows year after year that the majority of misused and abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including someone else’s medication being stolen from the home medicine cabinet. In addition, Americans are now advised that their usual methods for disposing of unused medicines—flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash—both pose potential safety and health hazards.
For more information about the disposal of prescription drugs or about the April 25th Take Back go to www.lindycares.org or email lindycareslcc@gmail.com