Nearly $20K of Prescription Drugs Collected at Stoughton's Take-Back Day
The prescription drug take-back was run by OASIS in October. This year's collection was almost double what was collected at the 2011 take-back event.
OASIS (Organizing Against Substances in Stoughton) announced that nearly $20,000 in controlled substances were collected at its recent prescription drug take-back event, which was held Oct. 20 at the O'Donnell Middle School parking lot in conjunction with Hazardous Waste Day. It was an opportunity for Stoughton residents to clean out any old, unused medication in their medicine cabinets and dispose of it in a safe way. All controlled substances collected went to the police station and were incinerated, Stephanie Patton, OASIS Substance Abuse Prevention Coordinator, said. Patton said no questions were asked and that any identifying information was eliminated from the prescriptions turned in. Prescription drugs collected ran from A to Z - …
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