AtlantiCare offers safe medication disposal assistance

AtlantiCare now offers medication disposal boxes to assist patients and the community in disposing medications.

The disposal boxes, shaped like mail-drop boxes, are at AtlantiCare community pharmacies at its Atlantic City, Galloway and Manahawkin locations:

William L. Gormley AtlantiCare HealthPlex, 1401 Atlantic Avenue, Atlantic City

54 West Jimmie Leeds Road, Galloway

AtlantiCare Health Park, 517 Route 72 West, Manahawkin

AtlantiCare also provides medication disposal bags to patients prescribed acute controlled substance prescriptions who are discharged from the Emergency Department or any acute care setting at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center’s Mainland and City campuses in Pomona and Atlantic City. ARMC’s on-site pharmacies provide the bags, which deactivate the medications, to patients.

“Helping our patients and the community safely dispose opioids and other medications is one way we are working to prevent opioid-related deaths,” said Sandra Garrett, assistant vice president, Pharmacy and Medical Specialty Service Lines, AtlantiCare.

If you or a loved one is seeking treatment for addiction, please call AtlantiCare at 1-609-646-9159. For a life-threatening situation, dial 911.

For more information about AtlantiCare, call the AtlantiCare Access Center at 1-888-569-1000, or find AtlantiCare on Facebook.