Kentuckians wanting to get rid of unused prescription medicines can drop them off this Saturday during a statewide “pill take back” program.
The partnership between Kentucky State Police and the Drug Enforcement Administration will include take-back locations at the KSP posts in Bowling Green, Columbia, Elizabethtown, and Henderson, as well as 12 other locations statewide.
“There’s a lot of people out there who may have medicine in their cabinet that for one reason or the other they did not finish taking. And if it’s a controlled substance—anything that was given to them through a pharmacy, then that would be the kind of medicines that we would want people to turn in,” said KSP public information officer Paul Blanton.
Trooper Blanton says all unused prescription drugs turned in will be properly destroyed. He encourages Kentuckians not to flush old pills down the toilet or put them in the trash.
“You don’t want that kind of stuff going into your water supply. You don’t want it going into your trash dumps, because it can get into the groundwater.”
The pill take-back locations will be open this Saturday from 10 a.m. -2 p.m.
All but two of the pill "take back" locations are at KSP posts. The post 8 location is at the Carl Perkins Community Center in Morehead, and the post 11 location is at the Laurel County Health Department in London.
KSP Pill "Take Back" Locations
POST 1
8366 State Route 45 North
Hickory, KY 42051
Phone: (270) 856-3721
POST 2
1000 Western KY Parkway
Nortonville, KY 42442
Phone: (270) 676-3313
POST 3
3119 Nashville Rd
Bowling Green, KY 42102
Phone: (270) 782-2010
POST 4
1055 North Mulberry
Elizabethtown, KY 42701
Phone: (270) 766-5078
POST 5
160 Citation Lane
Campbellsburg, KY 40011
Phone: (502) 532-6363
POST 6
4265 US 25 Dixie Hwy
Dry Ridge, KY 41035
Phone: (859) 428-1212
POST 7
699 Eastern Bypass
Richmond, KY 40475
Phone: (859) 623-2404
POST 8
Carl Perkins Com Center
Crayton Jackson Lane
Morehead, KY 40351
Phone: (606) 784-4127
POST 9
3499 North Mayo Trail
Pikeville, KY 41501
Phone: (606) 433-7711
POST 10
3319 US 421 South
Harlan, KY 40831
Phone: (606) 573-3131
POST 11
Laurel Co Health Dept
525 Whitley St.
London, KY 40741
Phone: (606) 878-6622
POST 12
1250 Louisville Road
Frankfort, KY 40601
Phone: (502) 227-2221
POST 13
100 Justice Drive
Hazard, KY 41701
Phone: (606) 435-6069
POST 14
5975 State Route 60
Ashland, KY 41101
Phone: (606) 928-6421
POST 15
1118 Jamestown St
Columbia, KY 42728
Phone: (270) 384-4796
POST 16
8415 US 41 South
Henderson, KY 42420
Phone: (270) 826-3312
