About 300 lbs of unwanted medication and narcotics is now in the hands of police after the seventh Take Back Your Drugs Day.
Windsor & Essex County Crime Stoppers Coordinator Ryan Burney says keeping unused drugs in your medicine cabinet poses a risk. "You could be a target if there's someone who is out there that wants to sell those type of things and you have hundreds of dollars worth of percocets or oxycodon in your medicine cabinet," says Burney. "You could be a target, someone may end up breaking into your house looking for those drugs."
The street value of the drugs totals about $10,000. "Anything from people who have expired Tylenol, pain medication, prescription, narcotics," says Burney. "Anything that's in their medicine cabinet, they want to get rid of it, it's expired, they're no longer using it. Instead of throwing it in the garbage or flushing it down the toilet, we encourage them to come down to our Take Back Your Drug Day.
The next Take Back Your Drugs event is scheduled for September at Devonshire Mall.