The Medication Education & Disposal Project (MED-Project), which offers safe, convenient and free disposal services for unwanted household medication in Santa Barbara County.
In addition to unwanted-medication drop boxes and mail-back services, MED-Project provides an online educational toolkit containing printable materials and videos to educate residents about the proper disposal of unwanted household medication.
The toolkit, which can be found at med-project.org/locations/santa-barbara/learn, allows local law enforcement agencies, community-based organizations, and healthcare providers to share information about the free household medication disposal services.
Santa Barbara residents looking for a drop box location or requesting a mail-back package for unwanted or expired medications can visit www.med-project.org or call 844-633-7765.
To protect their privacy, patients should remove all personally identifiable information from medication labels or packaging before disposing of unwanted medicine.
Once the items are received, MED-Project provides for the destruction of unwanted household medication in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.