Iowa Drug Drop
On Saturday, October 31, five locations in and around Des Moines, Iowa will serve as "drug drops," where medications that are no longer needed can be handed over for safe disposal. The event is being hosted by the Polk County Substance Abuse and Addictions Workgroup.

"Prescription and over-the-counter drug abuse is a growing problem," the Des Moines Register reported in an article announcing the drug drop program. "If you have expired or unused medications dispose of them in an environmentally safe way by bringing them to one of the drug drop locations."

The following locations will host the drops:

• Ankeny Fire Station
• Wadle & Associates, PC (Urbandale)
• Northern Warren Fire Station (Des Moines)
  
• Pleasant Hill Fire Station
• Des Moines Fire Station #6

Keeping out-of-date or otherwise no longer useful medications in the house -- or disposing of them in unsafe manners -- can lead to a number of health and safety concerns, and has been identified as a contributor to rising rates of prescription drug abuse by teens.

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