Prescription Drug Take Back Day in Parsippany

Apr 29, 2017

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PARSIPPANY — The Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department was taking back unwanted prescription drugs in front of the Harmon Stores, Morris Hills Shopping Center, on Saturday, April 29.

Pictured above is Parsippany-Troy Hills Patrolman Remo D’Alessandro, Officer Michael Ruggier and Sgt. Craig Brooks, Morris County Sheriff Officer.

The Prescription Drug Take-Back Program is focused on alleviating the health and safety concerns from the diversion and abuse of prescription drugs by helping our citizens properly dispose of unused prescription medications. Many young people who abuse prescription drugs take them from medicine cabinets. Keeping unused opioids or other common drugs of abuse in a medicine cabinet is no longer safe or responsible.

Prescription drug misuse, abuse and overdose are growing concerns across the nation. According to a 2015 survey 41.0% of prescription-drug-using students indicated taking the drugs from a family member living in their home, 41.8% indicated that a friend or family member gave them to the student, 26.9% indicated that they bought them from someone, 14.1% indicated they took them from someone not related to them, and 12.9% indicated they took them from relatives who were not living in their home.