Mangano To Host National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

For the third year in a row, Nassau County will partner with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in its fifth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, on Saturday, September 29, 2012, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano announced.

“This is a great opportunity for residents to safely shed their unwanted medications, including any unused or expired prescription drugs,” said County Executive Mangano. “Studies indicate that 70% of adolescents who went on to abuse prescription drugs obtained them originally from their family or a neighbor’s medicine cabinet.”

Unwanted prescription drugs can be brought on September 29th, and every day, to any of Nassau County’s police precincts listed below or policing centers. Unwanted drugs will also be collected at the Sept. 29th event, at city and village police departments and area hospitals.

At the DEA’s last take-back event on April 28th, citizens nationwide turned in a record-breaking 552,161 pounds (276 tons) of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at the 5,659 take-back sites that were available in all 50 states and U.S. territories, according to the DEA.

There have been four Take-Back Days to date that have removed over 1.5 million pounds (774 tons) of medication from circulation thanks to the DEA and its state, local, and tribal law-enforcement and community partners.

SOME COLLECTION SITES THROUGHOUT NASSAU COUNTY ARE:

POLICE PRECINCTS

  • Second Precinct - 7700 Jericho Turnpike, Woodbury
  • Third Precinct - 214 Hillside Avenue, Williston Park
  • Fourth Precinct - 1699 Broadway, Hewlett
  • Seventh Precinct - 3636 Merrick Road, Seaford

POLICE CENTERS

  • Policing Center - 900 Merrick Road, Baldwin
  • Policing Center - 1655 Dutch Broadway, Elmont
  • Policing Center - 100 Community Drive, Manhasset
  • Policing Center - 286 North Wantagh Avenue, Levittown

HOSPITALS

  • North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital, 221 Jericho Turnpike, Syosset (lobby)
  • Plainview Hospital, 888 Old Country Road, Plainview
  • North Shore University Hospital, 300 Community Drive Manhasset (Outside Main Lobby)
  • LI Jewish Hospital, 76th Ave, New Hyde Park (parking lot)
  • Glen Cove Hospital, 101 St. Andrew Lane, Glen Cove (ER waiting room)
    OTHER
  • Adelphi University, One South Ave, Garden City
  • Various Village and City Police Departments

For more details, go to: http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drug_disposal/takeback/