OC Sheriff’s Office hosting Pill Take Back Day on April 28

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office will be hosting its next Pill Take Back Day at two different locations on Saturday, April 28. The two events will be held from 10am until 2pm at the Sheriff’s Office Substation, which is located near the Emergency Room at Oconee Memorial Hospital and also at the Law Enforcement Center at 300 South Church Street in Walhalla. The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office will be accepting old or no longer needed prescription medication, in pill or liquid form, plus over the counter medication and vitamins so those medications can be disposed of properly. “The Pill Take Back Days make it possible for the Sheriff’s Office not only to safely collect but safely dispose of these medications,” says Lt. Jeremy Chapman of the Special Operations Division of the Sheriff’s Office. “This will prevent these medications from damaging the environment from being disposed of in the wrong place and also prevent these medications from getting into the hands of children or other individuals to protect them from harm.” The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office would also like to remind citizens that a Drug Collection Unit is located inside the main lobby of the Law Enforcement Center at 300 South Church Street in Walhalla. This unit, which was awarded to the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office based on a grant from CVS Pharmacy, was placed in the Law Enforcement Center last year. Citizens can bring by their unused prescription and over the counter medications and empty the contents into the Unit during normal business hours, 8:30am until 4:30pm, Monday-Friday. A second Medication Disposal Unit is located outside of the Emergency Room at Oconee Memorial Hospital. The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office asks those who bring medication in pill form to either the Pill Take Back Day or to the Drug Collection Unit to make sure to bring those medications in their marked prescription bottles and then open up those bottles and empty their contents into containers that the Sheriff’s Office will have set up during the Pill Take Back Day or directly into the Drug Collection Unit and then take those bottles with them to be recycled. This will help to keep the Sheriff’s Office incinerator in good working order, according to Lt. Chapman.