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Home Page for Take Back Your Meds. Protect our kids, families and environment. Washington State needs a statewide medicine take-back program.
Take Back Your Meds is a group of organizations demanding a statewide program for the safe return and disposal of left-over medicines.
Recent Events
Federal Bill Removes Barriers for Medicine Take-Back Programs
DEA National Drug Take-Back Day
The September 25th Drug Take-Back Day was a great success and raised public awareness about the critical importance of getting unneeded medicines out of our homes and safely disposing of them through a medicine take-back program.
Did you miss the Sept. 25th Take-Back Day? See What You Can Do Now
Learn about efforts to create an ongoing statewide take-back program.
What's New
Many residents in Puyallup, Kent and in other Washington communities safely returned their unwanted, expired prescription and over-the-counter medicines on Saturday's DEA take-back day. These efforts keep unwanted medicines away from our teens and children, out of our homes and out of the environment. Read more...
Teen medicine addiction often starts at home. Each day in America, 6,000 teenagers are using prescription drugs to get high for the first time, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says. Read more...
