Almost 300 pounds of medicine have been collected at MTSU drug take-back events since 2016. Most recently, MTSU collected 93 pounds of expired, unused, and unwanted prescription and over-the-counter medicines during an event earlier in the week.

Sponsored by the Campus Pharmacy and the University Police Department, the drug take-back event is part of an ongoing national collection drive led by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.

The collections are an effort to remove excess drugs from communities where they could be abused or misused, diverted into the wrong hands or disposed of in environmentally unsafe ways.

Again, almost 300 pounds of medicine have been collected at MTSU drug take-back events since 2016. About 400 tons of medicines have been discarded nationwide since take-back events began in 2010.