A campus collaboration has led to a first-time prescription drug take-back collection event at MTSU.

Campus Pharmacy, Health Services and Public Safety are partnering to hold the MTSU Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. It will be held from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the Student Health, Wellness and Recreation Center.

From 7 to 9 a.m., the campus community and general public can bring outdated prescriptions and over-the-counter drugs and unused needles to a drive-through collection area on the south side of the Campus Recreation Center near the Campus Pharmacy drive-through.

From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., medications will be accepted inside the rec center lobby. To prepare for the collection, organizers request that you please keep medications in their original packaging when possible, and black out any personally identifying information on the labels.

Lisa Schrader, director of Health Promotion says the event is designed to collect expired and unneeded medicines to help prevent accidental misuse or diversion and to keep medicines out of our groundwater supply.

To coincide with the National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, there will be a community take-back event from 8 a.m. to noon at Middle Tennessee Medical Center in the parking lot of the DePaul Building.