Wisconsin Health News

Wisconsin had the largest drug take back collection in the country this year during a national daylong event in late October, Attorney General Josh Kaul said Monday. 

The state collected 89,982 pounds of unused and unwanted medications on Oct. 24.

Kaul said in a statement that the “efforts help with the fight against substance-use disorder by ensuring that those unused medications won’t be diverted.”

Across the state, 230 law enforcement agencies hosted events and collected drugs from 485 permanent drug disposal boxes.