Schuylkill County will participate in National Drug Take Back Day on Oct. 23. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 20 sites countywide.

“It’s just a great program. We can collect drugs so they don’t get in the hands of the wrong people,” Sheriff Joseph Groody said.

Schuylkill County Drug and Alcohol and local law enforcement will also participate.

Amounts dropped off will be known the next week, he said.

The following locations will be collection sites:

Ashland Police Department, 401 S. 18th St., Ashland; Butler Township Police Department, 211 Broad St., Ashland; Cass Township Police Department, 1209 Valley Road, Duncott; Coaldale Police Department, 221 Third St., Coaldale; Frackville Police Department, 42 S. Center St., Frackville; Hegins Police Department, 417 Gap St., Valley View; Mahanoy City Police Department, 239 E. Pine St., Mahanoy City; Minersville Police Department, 15 N. Delaware Ave., Minersville; Orwigsburg Police Department, 209 N. Warren St., Orwigsburg; Palo Alto Police Department, 142 E. Bacon St., Palo Alto; Pine Grove Police Department, One Snyder Drive, Pine Grove; Port Carbon Police Department, 90 Washington St., Port Carbon; Rush Township Police Department, 104 Mahanoy Ave., Tamaqua; St. Clair Police Department, 24 N. Second St., St. Clair; St. Luke’s Miners Campus, 360 W. Ruddle St., Coaldale; Schuylkill County Courthouse (Security entrance), 401 N. Second St., Pottsville, Schuylkill Haven Police Department, 220 Parkway Ave., Schuylkill Haven; Shenandoah Police Department, 15 W. Washington St., Shenandoah; Tamaqua Police Department, 320 Broad St., Tamaqua; West Mahanoy Township Police Dept., 190 Pennsylvania Ave., Shenandoah Heights.

The event is free of charge and open to all. The program is anonymous. You are encouraged to remove personal information from prescription labels. Medication may be disposed of in its original container or by taking it out and discarding in the disposal box.

All expired, unwanted, controlled, noncontrolled and over the counter medication is accepted. Liquid products such as cough syrup should remain sealed in their original plastic container.

Glass containers, intravenous solutions, injectables, syringes and illegal substances such as marijuana and methamphetamine are not accepted.