Middletown Township announced they have joined the New Jersey Attorney General's "Project Medicine Drop" initiative and have installed a Project Medicine Drop box at police headquarters.
It will now be easier for residents of Middletown Township to take an active role in the fight against the nationwide opiate and heroin abuse epidemic, often fueled by prescription painkiller abuse...
Getting ready for some spring cleaning? So is the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office - which broke its own tonnage record for unused and outdated medications destroyed through Project Medicine Drop.
Twenty-eight-hundred pounds of unused, unneeded prescription medications from all over Ocean County go up in smoke, in the most recent collections through Project Medicine Drop.
There's no way to know how many potential overdoses were averted Wednesday. But there can be no question that 2,960 pounds of unused prescription medications going up in smoke contributed greatly.
A new study which surveyed 1,000 people who were prescribed opioids in the past year revealed two-thirds planned to keep the pills they had left over, as half of those polled were given no information on how or where to discard the medications.
The DART Coalition of Ocean County is working to keep prescription drugs from falling into the wrong hands - and you can help.
Coordinator Michele Buldo says every single one of us can be the first line of defense.
"Dispose of your medication, lock it up...
Ocean County's prescription drug drop-off program has taken thousands of pounds of pills out of circulation so far this year.
The Prosecutor's Office says Project Medicine Drop has collected and destroyed 5,400 lbs. of pills in the first 6 months of 2015, with the most recent pill burn accounting for more than 2,500 lbs...
Brick Township joins the ranks of Ocean County communities with Project Medicine Drop boxes. Residents can drop unused or outdated prescription drugs in a box that was recently installed at police headquarters located in the Brick Township Municipal building on Chambersbridge Road 24/7...