Arlington County invites you to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding your home of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs at one of its four takeback boxes.

The public can safely dispose of prescription medications 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year for free and with no questions asked at the following locations:

Fire Station #2
4805 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22203

Arlington County Fire Station #5
1750 S. Hayes Street
Arlington, VA 22202

Fire Station #9
1900 S. Walter Reed Drive
Arlington, VA 22204

Arlington County Police Department
1425 N. Courthouse Road
Arlington, VA 22201

Items accepted at the drug take-back boxes are prescriptions, vitamins, prescription ointments, pet medications, prescription patches and over-the-counter medications.

Items not accepted are needles, inhalers, aerosol cans, thermometers, lotions or liquids and hydrogen peroxide.

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