Lower Merion Cops Helping Collect Unused, Unwanted Drugs Saturday

LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP, PA — Saturday is the DEA's National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, and police in Lower Merion Township are joining the effort to keep these medications out of the wrong hands and out of the water.

Lower Merion area residents can dispose of their unused and unwanted medications from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Lower Merion Police Department.

Accepted are prescription and over-the-counter tablets and capsules, inhalers, creams, ointments, nasal sprays, pet medicines and vaping products.

Not accepted are needles, liquid meds and intravenous/injectable solutions.

More than 114,000 pounds of unused prescription and over-the-counter medicines and pills have been collected in Montgomery County since the drug disposal program began in 2010, according to the county.

The Lower Merion Township Police Department is located at 71 E. Lancaster Ave. in Ardmore.

See a full list of participating Montgomery County police departments online here.

National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposal, while also educating the public about the potential for abuse of these medications.