Make every day a medication Take Back Day

Make every day a medication Take Back Day

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has launched a new campaign encouraging the public to make Every Day Take Back Day by utilizing year-round collection sites to dispose of unneeded and unwanted medications.For more than a decade, DEA has worked...
1,600 pounds of pills collected

1,600 pounds of pills collected

Residents across southern and eastern Kentucky brought 1,656.3 pounds of pills to drop box sites as part of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s 9th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. “Operation UNITE collected unwanted or outdated drugs from each of the...

Drug Take-Back Day October 26

Residents living in southern and eastern Kentucky wishing to dispose of unwanted or expired prescription medications have plenty of options at this coming Saturday’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Over the past year, Operation UNITE has helped establish 41...
KEMI partners with UNITE

KEMI partners with UNITE

SOMERSET – Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance (KEMI) has partnered with Operation UNITE to help educate the public on the need to safeguard medications in the home. “As Kentucky’s largest provider of workers’ compensation insurance with more than 21,000...

Owsley ‘dragon’ destroys 5,674 pills

BOONEVILLE – Operation UNITE’s “Pill Dragon” destroyed 5,674 pills brought in as part of the “Clean Your Medicine Cabinet Out Day” program held at the Owsley Action Team Building in Booneville Wednesday, June 29. The Pill Dragon – a mobile incinerator provided in...