By Tommy Osborne

Prescription take back

Prince George to hold first prescription take back day

Aug 6, 2025 | 5:51 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – As part of International Overdose Awareness Month, Prince George will soon be holding its first prescription take back day. This is a day for anyone to bring any prescriptions or medications that aren’t being used to be safely disposed of. MLA for Prince George-Valemount Rosalyn Bird is one of many involved, and she says it’s an important day to highlight another type of drug abuse that doesn’t often get highlighted, being the potential danger of unused prescriptions.

“Whether it is seniors filling prescriptions through pharmacare and selling them to buy groceries, whether it is young adults using parents’ medications to self-medicate and/or possibly self-harm through suicide, those drugs need to come out of our medicine cabinets every year. So this year we are going to have community partners letting them know what resources are available in town to help people in crisis or having mental health struggles that are considering self-harming,” Bird said.

The day will take place on August 28 at Prince George City Hall from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

“We are going to have the availability for residents to come down, talk to those community partners, and also bring back any prescription medications that are expired,” Bird said.

Beyond the main goal of taking prescriptions off of shelves that aren’t being used, Bird also highlighted the other resources and community partners, such as mental health supports and drug education, among others. Most importantly, she says the main goal is purely to improve the community’s health.

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“We will have community partners down here, there will be food available, there will be RCMP and pharmacists on site to help take those drugs and dispose of them safely. But there won’t be any questions asked. This is not about judging or asking where and how did you come across this. This is just an opportunity for residents here in Prince George to be participatory in trying to solve this crisis,” she said.

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