The Brentwood Police Department will partner with The Drug Enforcement Administration to hold another National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. This one-day event will make it convenient for the public to rid their homes of potentially dangerous prescription drugs.

On Saturday, October 29, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. residents will be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at the City of Brentwood Municipal Center free of charge, no questions asked. By doing so, they will be helping prevent drug abuse and theft.

Americans participating in DEA’s two previous National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day events turned in more than 309 tons of pills at more than 5,300 sites manned by over 3,800 federal, state and local law enforcement officers.

Prescription drugs that languish in home medicine cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse, creating a public health crisis. The rate of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. today is at an alarmingly high level—two-and-a-half times more people currently abuse prescription drugs than the number of those using cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, and inhalants combined, according to the recently released statistics. The same statistics show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet.

For additional information on Drug Take-Back Day please contact the Drug Enforcement Administration.