The family medicine cabinet is increasingly becoming a deadly drug dealer, stuffed with expired and leftover prescription and over-the-counter medicines that can be dangerous to a family’s health and to our environment. For once, there is a solution that is simple, straight forward, cost effective and endorsed by a wide coalition of organizations, including those of us in law enforcement. It’s the Secure Medicine Return Bill, Senate Bill 5234, and it presents the state’s first proposed permanent drug take back program, one that would be funded entirely by pharmaceutical companies.

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