The Drug Enforcement Administration is holding its biannual National Take Back Day on Saturday, Oct. 25. It allows for people to anonymously dispose of drugs that are legal, prescribed and unwanted at the Boone County Sheriff’s Office and other police departments around Missouri.

National Take Back Day started in August 2010. According to the DEA, the organization holds the event to make sure prescription drugs don’t get into the wrong hands. Irina Butler is the executive director for the Pharmaceutical Product Stewardship Work Group and oversees MyOldMeds.com , a website that has a year-round locator for proper medicine disposal. Butler said proper disposal of drugs addresses several health and public safety concerns.

“Proper management and disposal of drugs from households also com

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