Here's a tip: Before you relax and take in the big game Saturday, clean out your medicine cabinet of old, unused and unwanted prescriptions.
Misused prescriptions, like left over Oxycodone, are mostly taken from medicine cabinets. The DEA says that's how kids first get involved with drugs.
Why take these drugs back? "Around four-out-of-five new heroin users first come into contact, first began their addiction from a prescription drug from a medicine cabinet," according to Louisiana DEA Director Brad Byeley.
"These medicines that are lying around, are high susceptible to diversion, misuse and abuse," says Byeley.
The best way to dispose of these drugs is to drop them off at a safe location participating in the drug take back day program.
"We do this twice a year, it's a free an anonymous program," says Byeley. "We're running it this Saturday, October 26, from 10am to 2pm. "We're taking just about everything."
This year, the DEA is taking back unwanted vaping products as well. As Byeley explains, vaping liquids laced with marijuana, THC, or synthetic compounds can dangerous or deadly.
"The fatalities that come from vaping, are the ones that contain a THC like substance that are being illicitly produced and then purchased," Byeley says.
Byeley says you can drop off liquids and the vaping device, too. "As part of this drug take back, we are taking the vaping devices we just ask that you remove the batteries."
Throwing them in the trash just makes them accessible to anyone who finds them. And flushing them down the toilet allows the drug to find its way into ground water.
Now's your chance: CLICK HERE to link to a site where you can find a nearby location to take back your unwanted prescription drugs.