Brown County National Drug Takeback event coming soon

BROWN COUNTY ( KSNT ) – The Brown County Sheriff’s Office will hold a drug takeback event later this week.

Drug takeback day allows participants to bring in unused, unwanted or expired prescription drugs to be disposed of with no questions asked.

Last year, former Attorney General Derek Schmidt said medicine was brought in at 69 locations in a statewide collection. The disposal effort saw a total of 7,742 pounds of unused drugs handed over, according to a federal Drug Enforcement Administration report.

Since 2010, Kansans have safely disposed of 229,556 pounds of medicine, according to the attorney general. Drugs and medicine that are turned in are handed over to the DEA, which safely destroys the medications.

The National Drug Takeback event in Brown County will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on April 27 at the Brown County Sheriff’s Office located at 709 Utah Street in Hiawatha. If you have any questions, call the sheriff’s office at 785-742-7125.

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