Operation Medicine Bottle

The City of Brownsville Police Department, Ward 2 Neighborhood Watch, and the Haywood County Community Coalition would like to announce an upcoming event that is designed to help clean up our neighborhoods and reduce the availability of old prescription medications. We are hosting our first prescription medication take-back program that is called OPERATION MEDICINE BOTTLE.

OPERATION MEDICINE BOTTLE will be held on Saturday Dec. 11th from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm at the W.O.W. building on Boyd Ave. by the HHS football field.
 
This program is designed to help reduce (3) primary problems:

1. To reduce the amount of medical waste that is FLUSHED down the drain polluting our water supply. According to the EPA, ¼ of our water supply is currently contaminated with trace amounts of medications and antibiotics.
2. To reduce the abuse of prescription medications by teens. Juvenile courts across the country have seen an increase in teen prescription abuse. Most teens get these prescriptions from friends and relatives medicine cabinets.
3. To reduce home burglaries that target medication theft.(primarily of citizens taking medications that are for pain, like cancer treatment drugs)

To help, we are asking everyone to bring in old containers of prescription medications. All you do is drop off the medications at the WOW building. You do not sign anything when you leave the medications. Trained medical personnel will count and itemize the pills for Police Destruction procedures. The plastic containers will have the labels peeled off and they will be destroyed with the medications following all Police procedures for destruction of evidence. The empty bottles will be sent to the county recycling site.

Please help us spread the word, DON’T FLUSH OLD MEDICINES bring them to the WOW building on Dec. 11th for proper destruction, and help keep our community clean and safe.

For more information contact Lt. Diebold at the Brownsville Police Dept. 731-772-1260