Senior Center Hosting Sheriff's Prescription Drug Drop-Offs

Written by Gwen Chalker

In an effort to prevent prescription drug abuse, the Somerset County Department of Human Services through funding by the New Jersey Governor’s Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (GCADA) collaborated with the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office, EMPOWER Somerset and Safe Communities Coalition and with the cooperation of the Office on Aging and Disability Services held a program at the Warrenbrook Senior Center to collect expired and unused prescription drugs. 

The Sheriff’s office collected the unused prescriptions and returned them to the Sheriff’s collection box for destruction. In addition, the Somerset County Retired Nurses Society and Single Senior Women’s Group presented a “rap” skit about the harmful effects of prescription medication abuse.

The Sheriff’s Office is coordinating a quarterly drop-off date and time at the Warrenbrook center where the public could drop off their expired or unused prescription drugs in a portable collection box. An officer would return the items for safe disposal at the Sheriff’s Office.  

The exact dates are still to be determined.