Kentuckians wanting to get rid of unused prescription medicines can drop them off this Saturday during a statewide “pill take back” program. The partnership between Kentucky State Police and the Drug Enforcement Administration will include take-back locations at the KSP posts in Bowling Green, Columbia, Elizabethtown, and Henderson, as well as 12 other locations statewide. “There’s a lot of people out there who may have medicine in their cabinet that for one reason or the other they did not finish taking. And if it’s a controlled substance—anything that was given to them through a pharmacy, then that would be the kind of medicines that we would want people to turn in,” said KSP public information officer Paul Blanton. Trooper Blanton says all unused prescription drugs turned in will be properly destroyed. He encourages Kentuckians not to flush old pills down the toilet or put them in the trash. “You don’t want that kind of stuff going into your water supply. You don’t want it going
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