NATIONAL TAKE BACK DAY
National Take Back Day was established by the Drug Enforcement Agency to collect expired, unwanted and unused prescription and over-the-counter medications and dispose of them properly, thus helping to reduce abuse of the medications and to help protect our environment. The program was started in Lehigh County in 2010. Alburtis Police Department is proud to be a participant of this program.
The 9th National Take Back Day was held on September 27, 2014 at various locations throughout the United States. In Lehigh County, area police departments collected the following amounts:
POLICE DEPARTMENT | LOCATION | AMOUNT |
Alburtis Police Department | Station | 12.5 pounds |
Macungie Police Department | Station | 15.5 pounds |
Allentown Police Department | Giant Supermarket-Emmaus Ave | 122 pounds |
Allentown Police Department | Walgreen's Pharmacy- W. Tilghman St | 130 pounds |
Bethlehem Police Department | Westgate Mall | 27.5 pounds |
Catasauqua Police Department | Station | 9 pounds |
Coopersburg Police Department | Giant Supermarket-Coopersburg | 21 pounds |
Lower Milford Township PD | Station | 2.5 pounds |
Salisbury Township PD | South Mall | 31.5 pounds |
Slatington Police Department | Station | 27 pounds |
South Whitehall Township PD | Station | 39 pounds |
Upper Macungie Township PD | Station | 34.5 pounds |
Upper Saucon Township PD | Station | 25 pounds |
Whitehall Township PD | Station | 30 pounds |
Pennsylvania State Police-Bethlehem | Station | 18 pounds |
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TOTAL |
| 545 pounds |
As of December 31, 2014, Lehigh County police departments have collected 1,871 pounds of unexpired or unwanted medications.
If you have any medications you need to dispose of, please contact our department, take them to the MedReturn box located at the pharmacy at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, or talk to your local pharmacist.
For more information please visit Lehigh County's District Attorney's website.
Ken Osmond (the actor who played Eddie Haskell in Leave it the Beaver) became a Los Angeles Police Officer after the show ended. He ended up being shot in the line of duty and survived because of his bullet proof vest. He is now retired.
As of 8/1/2016
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