Your Summer Checklist

✔️ Sunscreen, ✔️ cookouts, ✔️ road trips and...clean out your medicine cabinets.

Prescription drugs are a leading source of addiction for teens in the United States. Teens who have become addicted to prescription medication report experimenting with leftover medications within their own home or from a friend or family member's home.

Summer breaks are often a time teens will experiment with any leftover medications in the home. After you clean out your medicine cabinet, properly store and monitor the meds you still need. Consider having your tween or teen help you deliver the unused, unneeded and expired meds to one of the two permanent drop off locations in London.

Use this as a time to discuss why drug misuse can be very dangerous. Need a more secure medication storage option? Request a medication lock box from Laurel County ASAP, while supplies last.