Communities across the United States will participate in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s “National Drug Take Back” day, this Saturday from 10 am until 2 pm.
46,000 people a year die from drug overdoses and more than half of those die from prescription opioid overdoses. Four of five new users of heroin began with abusing prescription opioids. You can drop off unwanted prescriptions safely in Reno at Raley’s on Wedge Parkway–SaveMart on N. McCarran Blvd.– Scolari’s, 4788 Caughlin Parkway–
Smith’s on Lemmon Drive and at Lawlor Events Center

In Sparks at CVS on N. McCarran Blvd. and Walgreens on Vista Blvd.

In Douglas County at Walmart in Carson City, Walgreens, in Gardnerville, the Douglas County Ranchos substation in Gardnerville– East Fork Fire and Paramedic station, Topaz Ranch Estates and Safeway, Zephyr Cove.