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Saturday, April 28 is the fourth national Pharmaceutical Take-back Day. The DEA website allows you to type in your zip code and find a take-back location near you . There are locations in Brooklyn and other NYC boroughs—more will be added to the database until the day of the event. What can you bring to these locations? All medicines that your family and your pets use should be properly disposed of at a drug take-back program. For more details, check the DEA website .

Medicines are now found in our surface and ground water, as well as drinking water supplies. Wastewater treatment facilities do not remove most medicines. Throwing medicines in the garbage—especially controlled substances like OxyContin and other pain relievers—is not safe because the drugs can be found and used by others. Medicines thrown in the trash can also get into the environment. Saturday, October 26, from 10am to 2pm is the third annual Prescription Drug Take-back Day. There are many drop-off locations in Brooklyn and the other boroughs of New York City. Check this site to find a drop off location near you. Check the list of accepted items if you have any questions.

The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has organized the third nautional pharmaceutical take-back day on Saturday, October 29, between 10am and 2pm in locations across the United States. The DEA website allows you to type in your zip code and find the locations nearest to you . There are numerous locations in Brooklyn and other NYC boroughs—more will be added to the database until the day of the event. The amount of pharmaceuticals currently in use has become an environmental problem, because, like everything else, sooner or later the drugs turn into waste products. Trace elements of a wide variety of drugs including antibiotics, anti-depressants and sex hormones have been found in lakes and rivers as well as numerous municipal water supplies. In an effort to mitigate this problem, pharmaceutical take-back events have been organized to properly collect and dispose of left-over medications so they do not migrate into the environment. This is not a reason to switch to bottled water, m...