{"id":604372,"date":"2026-04-24T21:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/604372\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:29:07","slug":"drug-take-back-day-in-new-hampshire-for-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/604372\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Take Back Day in New Hampshire for April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSaturday is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Police departments across New Hampshire will collect expired or unwanted medications, no questions asked, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.&gt;&gt; Find a collection site near you (you might need to hit &#8220;Start Over&#8221; to begin the search using your ZIP code)All drugs are handed over to the Drug Enforcement Administration for safe destruction.Items that will not be accepted in drop boxes:NeedlesSharpsSyringesLiquids InhalersAerosolsMarijuanaThe Drug Enforcement Administration will accept vaping devices and cartridges as long as lithium batteries are removed from those devices before disposal. &gt;&gt; Visit this link for additional information about Drug Take Back Day\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tMANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Saturday is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. <\/p>\n<p>Police departments across New Hampshire will collect expired or unwanted medications, no questions asked, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dea.gov\/takebackday#collection-locator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Find a collection site near you<\/a> (you might need to hit &#8220;Start Over&#8221; to begin the search using your ZIP code)<\/p>\n<p>All drugs are handed over to the Drug Enforcement Administration for safe destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Items that will not be accepted in drop boxes:<\/p>\n<p>NeedlesSharpsSyringesLiquids InhalersAerosolsMarijuana\t<\/p>\n<p>The Drug Enforcement Administration will accept vaping devices and cartridges as long as lithium batteries are removed from those devices before disposal. <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/takebackday.dea.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Visit this link for additional information about Drug Take Back Day<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Police departments across New Hampshire will collect expired or unwanted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[65625,6484,262831,262835,275,238214,685,37969,262836,262072,2605,19490,97,90389,54914,243,2804,22214,2824,262834,6318,38782,262832,262833],"class_list":{"0":"post-604372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-additional-information","9":"tag-april","10":"tag-april-2026","11":"tag-cartridge","12":"tag-day","13":"tag-disposal","14":"tag-drug","15":"tag-drug-enforcement-administration","16":"tag-drug-take","17":"tag-drug-take-back-day","18":"tag-drugs","19":"tag-fall","20":"tag-health","21":"tag-item","22":"tag-link","23":"tag-medication","24":"tag-new-hampshire","25":"tag-police-department","26":"tag-prescription-drugs","27":"tag-safe-destruction","28":"tag-saturday","29":"tag-spring","30":"tag-unwanted-prescription-drug","31":"tag-vaping-device"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}