(National Take Back Day)....It is the 25th Annual National Take Back Day.

It will be held this Saturday, October 28th. Locally, it will be held at the Starbucks on South 4th Street in El Centro. The special day is the creation of the Drug Enforcement Administration. It is an opportunity for resident to clean out their medicine cabinets and safely dispose of old or no longer used medical prescription medicines. Take Back Day will run from 10 am until 2 pm. Residents are encouraged to remove unneeded medications from their homes to prevent misuse and opioid addiction from ever starting. Collection sites will accept tablets, capsules, patches and other solid forms of prescription drugs