Bernards Township to Participate in “Operation Take Back New Jersey”
The Bernards Township Police Department, will be hosting an Operation Take Back New Jersey local collection site as part of the Operation Take Back NJ medicine disposal day.
The event will take place at Police Headquarters, 1 Collyer Lane, Basking Ridge, NJ between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday, September 29, 2012.
The goal of the program is to allow the citizens to rid their homes of unused, unwanted, or expired medications by turning these medications in to law enforcement officials who dispose of the substances in a safe and nonhazardous manner, preventing these pills from falling into the hands of juveniles or into the wrong hands.
During October 2011, Operation Take Back New Jersey collected 9,831 pounds of medications in New Jersey. Nationwide, the program collected 377,086 pounds of unused, unwanted, and expired medications. This year, we are very excited about the continued support brought on by Operation Take Back New Jersey, and we hope all citizens will take time to eliminate any and all medicines that are not suitable for proper medical use. The more public attention we bring to this issue, the more we trust that people will become educated on the dangers of prescription drug abuse. Recent studies by Monitoring the Future, University of Michigan, between 1997 and 2007, stated that treatment admissions for prescription painkillers increased more than 400 percent.
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