{"id":58620,"date":"2025-10-22T13:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=58620"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:05:24","slug":"lakeland-police-joins-dea-national-drug-take-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/10\/22\/lakeland-police-joins-dea-national-drug-take-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Police joins DEA National Drug Take Back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Lakeland Police Department\u00a0is proud to join the Drug Enforcement Administration and its national and community partners for National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, October 25, 2025, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, for citizens to dispose of unwanted, unneeded, and expired human and pet medications in a safe manner. We want to make it quick and easy for you with a drive-through drop off. Just pull into our parking lot, and we will assist you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day provides a convenient and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while also educating the general public about the potential for abuse of medication. Studies show that medicines in home cabinets are highly susceptible to misuse and abuse. Our community\u2019s Prescription Drug Take-Back Day will allow citizens to turn in unused, expired, or unwanted Human and Pet Medications, as well as over-the-counter medications, vitamins, and other medications in liquid and solid form, for proper disposal. JUULs and other e-cig devices will also be accepted. Medications should be placed in a clear, air-tight plastic bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those unable to attend on October 25th<\/sup>, unwanted medications may also be brought to the Lakeland Police Department and placed in the drop box located in the lobby. Access to this drop box is available 24\/7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional Drop-off locations are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bartow Police Department \u2013 450 North Broadway Avenue, Bartow, FL<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haines City Police Department \u2013 35400 Highway 27, Haines City, FL<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lake Alfred Police Department \u2013 190 N. Seminole Avenue, Lake Alfred, FL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lakeland Police Department\u00a0is proud to join the Drug Enforcement Administration and its national and community partners for National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, October 25, 2025, from 10:00… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"7591","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMTBcL3VubmFtZWQtNDgud2VicD9maXQ9NjYyJTJDMTAyNCZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6Ikxha2VsYW5kIFBvbGljZSBqb2lucyBERUEgTmF0aW9uYWwgRHJ1ZyBUYWtlIEJhY2siLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.Yu3mPrKdCdrie_PE23zDvjthMqmBMIOZWUAPhraycYcMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":58621,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/unnamed-48.webp","type":"image\/png"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[7591],"tags":[12435],"class_list":["post-58620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-of-lakeland","tag-lakeland-police-joins-dea-national-drug-take-back"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58622,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58620\/revisions\/58622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}