GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Across the country on Saturday, people were safely getting rid of old or unneeded medications.
National Drug Take Back Day events were happening like one at St. Mary’s Hospital in Green Bay.
The goal is to keep the meds out of the hands of the wrong people like children, addicts or abusers.
“The other piece of this is they’re chemicals,” said Chris Brabant, the president and CEO at HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital in Oconto Falls, who was helping at the Green Bay event.
“So rather than flush them down the toilet or throw them in a landfill, folks can bring medications here and then we can dispose of them in the appropriate manner.”
If you didn’t make it to a Drug Take Back Day event, most local law enforcement agencies take medications year round.
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