National Online Directory of Permanent Rx Collection Boxes Launched

The American Medicine Chest Challenge (AMCC), the nation’s largest privately-funded public health campaign preventing prescription drug abuse, announced the creation of a national online directory of permanent prescription drug collection boxes for the collection of unused, unwanted, and expired medicine.

The directory created in cooperation with local, county and state law enforcement is available on americanmedicinechest.com. Currently, the directory includes collection sites in 25 states, including New Jersey, and will be updated daily. The directory will contain an interactive map of each state’s permanent collection sites.

“Having access to a list of permanent collections boxes will help parents and grandparents protect the young people in their lives by safely disposing of their unused, unwanted, and expired medicine,” explained AMCC Chief Executive Officer Angelo M. Valente in a news release. “AMCC calls on residents to see their medicine cabinets through new eyes -- as an access point for potential misuse and abuse of over-the-counter and prescription medicine by young people."

Valente encouraged everyone to take the American Medicine Chest 5-Step Challenge: taking inventory and securing medicine in the home, disposing of unused, unwanted, and expired medicine, taking medicine only as prescribed, and talking to children about the dangers of prescription drug abuse.

The parent organization of AMCC is the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey, a longtime community coalition member of CADCA.