Saturday is the 12th annual American Medicine Chest Challenge, which gives Downbeach residents the opportunity to dispose of their unwanted or expired medications safely.
The American Medicine Chest Challenge is a community based public health initiative, with law enforcement partnership, designed to raise awareness about the dangers of prescription drug abuse and provide a nationwide day of disposal – at a collection site or in the home – of unused, unwanted, and expired medicine that will be held on the second Saturday of November each year in communities across the country.
Today is the day you should:
- Take inventory of your prescription and over-the-counter medicine
- Secure your medicine
- Dispose of your unused, unwanted, and expired medicine at an American Medicine Chest Challenge disposal site
- Do not share the medicine prescribed to you
- Talk to your children and physician about the dangers of prescription drug abuse… they are listening. For tips visit Partnership For Drug-Free Kids, NIDA, and StopMedicinceAbuse.com.
Medicine Chest drop off locations in the Downbeach area:
- Ventnor City Police Department, 6201 Atlantic Ave., near the Tax Office
- Margate City Police Department, 111 N. Decatur Ave. lobby area
- Longport Police Department, 2305 Atlantic Ave., entrance at rear of the building