Bloomfield Police Department host "Operation Take Back New Jersey"

Bloomfield is hosting an Operation Take Back New Jersey Collection Site as part of the Operation Take Back New Jersey Medicine Disposal Day.   This initiative, open to all residents, was organized to encourage local community residents to properly dispose of their unused, unwanted and expired mediciine. 

The mission of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) New Jersey (NJ) Division Operation Take Back NJ is to provide a safe and legal method for the citizens of New Jersey to dispose their unwanted, unused, and expired medicines.     
Each year, experts say, a growing number of teenagers quietly turn to a seemingly unlikely source to score drugs — their parents’ medicine cabinets. According to the most recent studies, Monitoring the Future, University of Michigan, between 1997 and 2007, treatment admissions for prescription painkillers increased more than 400 percent.1 In addition, between 2004 and 2008, the number of visits to hospital emergency department involving the non- medical use of narcotic painkillers increased 111 percent.