April 27.2013 is presecription drug take back day.
Last year, unintentional prescription pain medication overdoses killed more Utahns than automobile accidents. The majority of these deaths could have been prevented by simply using medications exactly as prescribed, including: Not taking larger doses than recommended, only taking medications prescribed to you...
Scores of prescription drugs are out of Utah homes and are on the way to being destroyed. This is all is an effort to keep drugs out of the hands of those for whom they were not intended.
On December 5, 2010, 13-year-old Connor Watson of Sandy, Utah died as a result of a prescription drug overdose.