The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office is hosting a Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 27th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Along with the DEA and other law enforcement agencies nationwide, the Sheriff’s Office wants to remove potentially dangerous controlled substances from our nation’s medicine cabinets.

The Drug Take-Back Day provides an opportunity for the public to surrender expired, unwanted, or unused pharmaceutical controlled substances and other medications for destruction. These drugs are a potential source of supply for illegal use and an unacceptable risk to public health and safety.

Acceptable items to bring to the Drug Take Back event are;
Prescription and over the counter solid dosage medications to include tablets and capsules

Items that are NOT acceptable;
• Intravenous solutions
• Injectables
• Needles
• Oxygen containers
• Illicit substances such as marijuana or methamphetamines.

Prescriptions should be removed from their original containers and placed in a plastic bag prior to drop off.

The Sheriff's Office will accommodate collections at three sites in the county:
Sheriff's Office Headquarters
200 Jefferson County Parkway
Golden, CO 80401

Conifer High School
10441 County Road 73
Conifer, CO 80433

Dakota Ridge High School
13399 W Coal Mine Avenue
Littleton, CO 80127

If for any reason you are unable to attend this event, remember that the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office has installed four safe disposal sites for residents to drop off unused or expired household medications. Secure medication drop boxes are now available at the following locations:
• Sheriff’s Office Lobby, 200 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden
• Jail Lobby, 200 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden
• South Precinct, 11139 Bradford Road, Littleton
• Mountain Precinct, 4990 County Highway 73, Evergreen

Drop boxes are the best option for families and individuals to safely dispose of potentially harmful medications. Prescription medications, over-the-counter medications, and vitamins can be disposed of in the drop box. However, Sharps items, chemotherapy medication, and marijuana products may not be disposed of in drop boxes. Healthcare facility waste is also not permitted.

The average American household contains four pounds of prescription and over-the-counter medications. Sheriff Jeff Shrader explains “this excess of medications enables opportunities for misuse and abuse, which can have very serious consequences. If medication is taken incorrectly or by people it was not intended for, it could even lead to death.”

The Sheriff’s Office obtained its drop boxes through the Colorado Household Medication Take-Back Program, administered by the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment. Medication collected in the boxes is securely packaged and shipped off-site, where it is converted to renewable energy.

For all items that cannot be collected at the Drug Take Back day and in the Drug take Back boxes, check out the disposal and care options here;

www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/what-do-items-cannot-be-accepted