UCF students will have the opportunity to get rid of old, unused medicine the safe way at this week’s drug take-back event.
UCF Police and UCF Health Services are partnering up to collect unused prescriptions and over-the-counter drugs on Wednesday, Sept. 24 at the John T. Washington Center Breezeway from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It is the fifth time UCF has held this event and will be a part of an anonymous, no-questions-asked national effort to curb drug abuse leading up to Saturday’s U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Prescription Drug Take Back-Day
UCF is holding the event on Wednesday to accommodate to student’s schedules. Needles will not be accepted, but pills, inhalers, liquids and ointments will all be accepted.
The DEA will then take the medicine from UCF to prevent it from getting in the hands of drug abusers or ending up in waterways and landfills.
UCF collects unwanted medicine year-round at permanent drug take-back boxes located on the first floor of the Student Union and in the pharmacy of the Health Center.
