St. Rita's Medical Center is offering a way for people to dispose of excess medication in a safe and convenient way.
You can find a medication take-back bin in the emergency department at St. Rita's where you can drop off expired, leftover, and unused medication. All types of medication are allowed except needles, aerosols, and illegal drugs.
They ask that you put liquids in one of the Ziploc bags provided on the bin. Officials say the pharmacy will ship the items off to be disposed once it's full.
They hope this will help keep medications out of the wrong hands. "There's always a high incidence, or a high possibility of children being accessible and getting that and taking it inadvertently," said Pharmacy Manager at St. Rita's, Nancy Rampe, "Another reason is to help combat the opioid abuse that's going on not only in Ohio but nationwide, when patients are done with a recovery or procedure and they're finished taking the prescription pain medication, if they have anything left over they can definitely bring it in here."
There is a National medication take-back day on April 30th. St. Rita's says they will be educating the public on the importance of being responsible with your medication.Â
