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Our Vice President for Professional Services writes about the work being done at CVS Health to help combat opioid misuse every day through prevention and education.

CVS Health has made an enterprise-wide commitment to help address the abuse and misuse of prescription opioids through a variety of programs, initiatives and community support.

The collaboration builds on our opioid abuse prevention efforts and will help consumers find locations in their communities to drop off unwanted prescription drugs.

As part of our fight against prescription drug abuse, we’ve added safes with time-delay functionality in select CVS Pharmacy locations.

Disposal units can now be found in select CVS Pharmacy locations around the state, making it easier for the public to safely dispose of opioids and other medications before they’re misused.

The expansion of the program is part of our ongoing efforts to combat the opioid epidemic nationwide by preventing the misuse and abuse of unused or unwanted medications.

At a recent White House event, we announced new commitments to prevent prescription drug abuse and help the millions of Americans who struggle with addiction daily.

We’re helping increase safe medication disposal options in the communities we serve, including through our nationwide disposal program and take-back events at 100 CVS Pharmacy locations on Oct. 27.

State leaders and CVS Health colleagues recently celebrated the expansion of the safe medication disposal program in select CVS Pharmacy locations in Wisconsin.

New units in 24 CVS Pharmacy locations provide for safe disposal of unused or unwanted medications.

New units in 49 locations provide patients and customers the ability to safely dispose of unused or unwanted medications.

In-store disposal units in 9 Kentucky CVS Pharmacy locations provide the ability to properly dispose of unwanted or unused prescription drugs.