Recently, the Colton Police Department received a prescription drug drop off box from the KidCents/Rite Aid Foundation’s Safe Medication Disposal Program. The drop off box is placed in the Police Department lobby, located at 650 North La Cadena Dr., Colton. The medication drop off box is available during business hours for people to safely dispose of prescription and over-the-counter medications that are no longer needed or have expired.
The Rite Aid Foundation’s Safe Medication Disposal Program is a public safety initiative focused on reducing drug accessibility, medication misuse and accidental poisoning among children and adolescents. Funded by The Rite Aid Foundation’s KidCents program, the Safe Medication Disposal Program provides law enforcement agencies in communities served by Rite Aid with free medication disposal units for citizens to safely dispose of expired or unwanted prescription and over-the-counter medications.