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For Immediate Release

Spring Clean Your Medicine Cabinets and
Drop Off Unused, Expired or Unwanted Medications 

(Madison, NJ) April 20, 2018- Spring Clean Your Medicine Cabinets! Dispose of your unused, expired or unwanted medications in a safe way and keep them out of the wrong hands.

The Madison Chatham Coalition, in partnership with the Madison Alliance Addressing Substance Abuse and the Municipal Alliance Committee of the Chathams, is pleased to support the efforts of local police departments and businesses that take back prescription drugs to help in the fight against the misuse of prescription drugs. Pills and patches are accepted. Liquids, syringes and sharps are not accepted.  

Madison Pharmacy has a drop box that is accessible year-round to everyone in the community to drop off unused prescriptions whenever the pharmacy is open. To further help in the fight against prescription drug misuse, the pharmacy attaches fliers to every controlled substance prescription it fills that explains its prescription drug take-back program.

Since 2013, the Madison Police Department has welcomed residents and non-residents to drop off medications in the drop off box donated by Morris County Prevention is Key in the lobby 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

The Chatham Township Police Department has a box at its headquarters on Southern Boulevard that residents and non-residents can come to drop off medications any day of the week. 

Additionally, the department will have another box at Hickory Square Mall in front of CVS Pharmacy from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sat., April 28, the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Take Back Day event. In its 14 previous Take Back events, the DEA and its partners have taken in more than 9 million pounds of pills.

The Madison Chatham Coalition is funded by the Office of National Drug Control Policy and is a collaborative partnership between the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America. For more information about the Madison Chatham Coalition, please visit www.madisonchathamcoalition.org.

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