National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day once again a success

Saturday’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day pulled 28,263 pounds of unneeded, unwanted and expired medications off the street and out of Americans’ medicine cabinets. Locally, the Williams County Sheriff’s Office collected 127 pounds and the Multi-Area Narcotics Task Force collected 593 pounds from all six of its covered counties. The annual Take-Back initiative was created to provide a safe, convenient and responsible means of prescription drug disposal, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said in a press release Wednesday. Unused prescription drugs in homes create a public health and safety concern because the medications can be accidentally ingested, stolen, misused and abused.