Medications

Proper disposal of mediation is an important environmental and health concern.

An Associated Press Investigation found drugs in the drinking water of 24 major metropolitan areas across the country. Wastewater treatment cannot remove these drugs completely from the water and therefore whatever drugs are flushed down the toilet, whether from human elimination or from dumping of old medicine, ends up in our water supply and in the environment. Results of this buildup of medications include poisoning or mutations in wildlife, particularly fish, increased antibiotic resistance among harmful bacteria, and the potential consumption of "background levels" of everything from estrogen-disrupting chemicals to mood-altering ones, with unknown long-term effects on all of us.
Although there isn’t much we can do regarding the human elimination factor in this equation, we can avoid dumping medicine down the drain and adding to the drugs in our water.

Worthington Police Department - Open 24/7
6555 Worthington Galena Rd, Worthington, OH 43085
(614) 885-4463
Here is a great article about the medication drop-box in Worthington



National Medication (Drug) Take-back Day - Last weekend in AprilYou will find several locations hosting events around that time.  Check with your local hospitals or doctor's office.