A joint venture to provide an avenue for Mexico residents to turn in any outdated or unused drugs in their possession, prescribed or otherwise, was held outside the Mexico Wal-Mart on April 25.
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A joint venture to provide an avenue for Mexico residents to turn in any outdated or unused drugs in their possession, prescribed or otherwise, was held outside the Mexico Wal-Mart on April 25.
The event, hosted by the Mexico Public Safety Department, the Audrain County Health Department’s Audrain County Coalition On Reducing Drugs and Wal-Mart Pharmacy, was able to remove 33 pounds of drugs from the community, according to a news release issued by the health department.
“It’s initiatives like these that help make our community safer for our residents,” Brice Mesko, MPSD chief, said. “We were happy to play a role in making this happen and being one of the conduits to the removal from our community of these drugs through the Drug Enforcement Agency.”
Representatives from MPSD, Wal-Mart Pharmacy and ACHD’s ACCORD coalition were at the Mexico Wal-Mart from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on April 25 to collect the drugs, offer information about addressing drug use in the community and talk with residents about the initiative if they had questions.
“The ACHD recognizes that through partnerships like this with MPSD and Wal-Mart Pharmacy, we are able to affect a positive impact on the use of drugs in the Mexico and Audrain County community,” ACHD Administrator and CEO, Craig Brace, said. “We were happy to come alongside MPSD and Wal-Mart Pharmacy and utilize our ACCORD coalition to help out.”
Wal-Mart Pharmacy Manager and Pharmacist Megan Lavy said Wal-Mart was more than happy to participate and host the event.
“Anything we can do to help reduce the possible misuse of prescription drugs in our community, we’re all for,” she said. “We are happy that the amount of drugs removed from the community that could possibly do harm if it landed in unintended hands was so large and, we look forward to helping out again in the future at events like this if we can!”
Officers with MPSD turned the drugs over to the DEA for destruction.
