By Tommy Osborne
Prescription take back
Aug 6, 2025 | 5:51 PM
PRINCE GEORGE – As part of International Overdose Awareness Month, Prince George will soon be holding B.C.’s first prescription take back day. This is a day for anyone to bring any prescriptions or medications that aren’t being used to be safely disposed of. MLA for Prince George-Valemount Rosalyn Bird is one of many involved, and she says it’s an important day to highlight another type of drug abuse that doesn’t often get highlighted, being the potential danger of unused prescriptions.
“Whether it is seniors filling prescriptions through pharmacare and selling them to buy groceries, whether it is young adults using parents’ medications to self-medicate and/or possibly self-harm through suicide, those drugs need to come out of our medicine cabinets every year. So this year we are going to have community partners letting them know what resources are available in town to help people in crisis or having mental health struggles that are considering self-harming,” Bird said.
The day will take place on August 28 at Prince George City Hall from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
“We are going to have the availability for residents to come down, talk to those community partners, and also bring back any prescription medications that are expired,” Bird said.