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Take it To the Box in Crow Wing County
What is Take it to the Box?
Take It To The Box Take It To The Box provides a FREE, safe disposal site for medications that are no longer needed or are expired. Take it To the Box allows residents to bring their unused, expired, and unwanted medications and drop them into a secure place where the police department will have them destroyed. The purpose of this program is to provide environmentally safe alternatives to disposing of medications in landfills or sewer systems. It also encourages people to remove unwanted medications from their homes thus reducing the access to addictive medications for accidental or intentional misuse by children or others in the home. Medication expiration dates should be checked regularly and disposed of when expired. Remember to clean out your medicine cabinet routinely and dispose of any unneeded and expired medications.
90% of people who misuse prescription medication get it from friends and family members.
Don't let your medicine cabinet become yet another statistic. Safely dispose of prescription medications at one of the many area Take It To The Box drop sites in Crow Wing County.
Take it to the Box Drop-Off Sites
Hours Vary by Location, Please cann
Crow Wing County Sheriff's Office
304 Laurel St, Brainerd
Breezy Point Police Department
8361 Co Rd 11, Breezy Point
Crosby Police Department
2 2nd St SW, Crosby
Crosslake Police Department
37028 Co Rd 66, Crosslake
Nisswa Police Department
5442 City Hall St, Nisswa
Pequot Lakes Police Department
4638 Co Rd 11, Pequot Lakes
Take it To the Box in Crow Wing County
What is 'Take It To the Box?'
What is 'Take It To the Box?'
What is 'Take It To the Box?'
It is a program that promotes the safe use, safe
storage and safe disposal of unneeded over-
the-counter medications, prescriptions and
narcotic drugs FREE of charge for community
members.
The Crow Wing County community is serious
about preventing medication misuse/abuse
and serious about healthy, environmentally
safe disposal of unneeded medications. Safe
medication disposal helps reduce such risks.
Why is it important?
What is 'Take It To the Box?'
What is 'Take It To the Box?'
There is a growing concern regarding the
abuse by youth and others of medications
not prescribed to them. Safe disposal
makes unneeded medicine less available.
Evidence is increasing of the damage to
the environment due to unsafe disposal of
medications. It is no longer safe to dispose
by flushing down sinks, toilets and/or
drains. Proper disposal helps protect our
soil and water
What Can Go in the Box?
What Can Go in the Box?
What Can Go in the Box?
Any unneeded over-the-counter medications,
prescription or narcotic drugs can be
placed in The Box. Inhaler medications
in dispensers may be dropped off in The Box.
NO chemotherapy or radiation medication,
syringes, needles or sharps are
accepted at these "drop-off" sites.
What Do I Do?
What Can Go in the Box?
What Can Go in the Box?
Check medications regularly for expiration dates and
clean out medicine cabinets at least annually.
• Leave medication in the original container.
• Remove your name and other identifying information.
Black out with markers or peel information off.
• Leave the name of the medication and all other
information on the container.
• Drop medication bottles into the disposal box opening.
SAFE USE
• Read and follow directions on all medications.
• Take the recommended dose - not more, not less.
• Don't share your prescription medicine with another or take someone else's medication.
SAFE STORAGE
• Keep all medication in a safe location that is unavailable to children, teens and guests.
• Lock up narcotics or mood altering medicines.
• Keep medicines in their original containers.
• Follow storage directions on the medicine.
SAFE DISPOSAL
• It is not safe to dispose by flushing down sinks, toilets and/or drains.
The Crow Wing County community is serious about preventing medication misuse/abuse and serious about healthy, environmentally safe disposal of unneeded medications. Safe medication disposal helps reduce such risks. There are now free medication disposal boxes located at several sites in Crow Wing County. The "drop off' box at each site will accept unneeded over-the-counter medications, prescriptions and narcotic drugs from community members.
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