Tons of unused meds destroyed in Spring 2024 Operation Medicine Drop

A joint effort involving the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the North Carolina National Guard resulted in the collection of 19,960 pounds of unused prescription medications as part of Operation Medicine Drop’s Spring Take Back Event and the DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.

That translates into approximately 15 million dosage units thanks to the citizens of North Carolina who continue to fill drop boxes across the state at pharmacies, hospitals, clinics, police departments and sheriffs’ offices with unused or expired medications.

The Creedmoor Police Department was one of the hosts for the event.

On May 1, the medications were safely and properly destroyed at an approved incinerator in Virginia.

OMD is a partnership between Safe Kids North Carolina, the DEA, the North Carolina Department of Justice, the North Carolina Department of Insurance, the NCNG Counterdrug Task Force, the SBI, and law enforcement agencies across the state. Since 2013, OMD has collected approximately 351.9 million prescription pills.

Please see below for the number of medications that have been collected and destroyed since 2013. These numbers reflect fall and spring OMD events for each year:

• 2013 – 20,176 pounds.

• 2014 – 9,932 pounds.

• 2015 – 26,238 pounds.

• 2016 – 41,385 pounds.

• 2017 – 48,354 pounds.

• 2018 – 62,239 pounds.

• 2019 – 68,056 pounds.

• 2020 – 42,815 pounds.

• 2021 – 45,170 pounds.

• 2022 – 44,500 pounds.

• 2023 – 40,810 pounds.

• 2024 – 19,960 pounds (Spring 2024).

The next coordinated Operation Medicine Drop event will take place in the fall of 2024.

You can visit www.morepowerfulnc.org for more information and to find a drop box near you.

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