Rainier Foothills Wellness Foundation, in partnership with the Enumclaw Police Department, will host its fourth “Prescription Take Back” event April 30.

The event runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Enumclaw Police Department, 1705 Wells St.

This event provides an opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs. The public is invited to deliver pills for disposal to the police station. Liquids, needles or sharps cannot be accepted – only pills and patches. The service is free and anonymous, with no questions asked.

Results from the 2014 Healthy Youth Survey illustrated that nearly 17 percent of Enumclaw High School seniors had used a prescription drug not prescribed to them within the last 30 days.

Thousands of Americans in communities across the country discarded more than 350 tons of unused, expired, or unwanted drugs as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Initiative on Sept. 26, 2015. More than 3,800 federal, state and local counterparts took in more than 702,365 pounds of unused, expired or unwanted drugs at more than 5,000 collection sites across the United States.

It was the 10th NTBI event since September 2010; cumulatively, these events have collected 5,525,021 pounds of drugs.