Bringing medications to a Medication Cleanout Event?

IMPORTANT:  Please leave medications in their original containers.

We collect information about the medications that are brought to Medication Cleanout events.  This information will be used to determine changes that need to be made to decrease waste in the future.  We do not collect any patient information and prior to safely disposing of medications and containers, all identifying information is marked through.

Thanks goes to hundreds of wonderful volunteers, community partners, Texas Panhandle Poison Center with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Safe Schools/Healthy Students with A.I.S.D., Amarillo and Abilene Police Departments and Lubbock County Sheriff's Dept, and countless others.

You are helping prevent poisonings, abuse, and misuse while protecting the environment!

Prevent poisonings - Prevent abuse - Prevent misuse - Protect the environment
Why is this so important? Poisonings Poisonings are second only to motor vehicle accidents as a cause of death from unintentional injury in the U.S. Medications left around the home can be the source for these poisonings. And poisonings are not limited to children. Adults often “self-treat” with leftover medications from previous illnesses – a dangerous practice that can result in delay in seeking help. Abuse Its been stated that the abuse of prescription medications is the fastest growing drug problem in the nation.  This is particularly a problem amongst teens. Prescription drug abuse is now second only to marijuana abuse. Each day 2,500 teens use a prescription medicine for the 1st time for a non-medical reason. Medicine cabinets of parents, grandparents, friends, or acquaintances are frequently the source.  Misuse Self-treatment with an inadequate supply of antibiotics can result in antibiotic resistance as well as a delay in seeking medical attention and the use of other miscellaneous medications for illness can be harmful as well.  The sharing of medications with others is an unsafe and potentially deadly practice!  Environment Many individuals who would like to dispose of their unneeded medications simply do not because they’ve heard of contamination of the water supply by medications that are flushed down the drain. This event provides our community with a way to safely, conveniently dispose of medications!  Take the opportunity to safely dispose of your unneeded medicines and help make your home and community safer.
Get rid of expired, leftover, unneeded medicine. Click here to see upcoming event dates.

Special thanks to Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Pharmacy

for helping to make Medication Cleanout a reality and a success!