TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — People with powerful prescription drugs they no longer need are helping get rid of them the right way this weekend. Wyoming County is among the sites taking part on Saturday in National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.
An event at the CVS in Tunkhannock was billed as "Got drugs?" Take Back.
This initiative is part of a broader effort called "One pill can kill," with the goal of preventing medication misuse.
The District Attorney compares unused pills in a medicine cabinet to a ticking time bomb.
Students duke it out in Scranton STEM competition
"They are such a temptation to grandchildren, to visitors and if we can remove that temptation, we remove the possibility that an individual, particularly a child, will start on the road to taking pills, eventual addiction and in the world of fentanyl, perhaps death," Wyoming County District Attorney Joe Peters explained.
"These pills can be a hazard to any children, mine or visitors, or anyone else. So by disposing these, some child is not going to get hurt," District Attorney Peter's father and former Scranton Mayor Eugene Peters.
The District Attorney says 100,000 unwanted pills are disposed of properly each year in Wyoming County.
