Bartow County Sheriff's Office receives Rx Drug Drop Box from the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators

Media release: Sheriff Clark Millsap is excited to announce that the Bartow County Sheriff's Office has received an Rx Drug Drop Box from the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators (NADDI) through a grant from Endo Pharmaceuticals, and the National Rx Drug Drop Box program.

Most Prescription medications should not be flushed down the toilet or thrown into the trash. The NADDI Rx Drug Drop Box program addresses a vital public health and safety issue. Medicines that languish in home medicine cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misues, and/or abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high. Studies show that individuals that abuse prescription drugs  often obtain them from family and friends, including from home medicine cabinets.

Through this grant from Endo Pharmaceuticals, the NADDI Rx Drug Drop Box program will increase the ability for patients to easily and properly dispose of unneeded, expired, or unwanted medicines. There is a great need for a permanent solution in which these medicines can be properly disposed of quickly and anonymously.

The secure drop box is located permanently at the Bartow County Sheriff's Office Administration lobby where patients can walk in and deposit their unwanted, expired medicines during normal business hours which are 8:00AM to 5:00PM Monday through Friday.

These unwanted drugs will then be destroyed in the proper manner.

Sheriff Millsap encourages everyone in our community to participate in this program that has any unwanted, unneeded and expired pharmaceuticals.