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Saturday Oct. 26 is National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day and all 30 Michigan State Police posts are serving as drop-off points.

What you need to know.

A bill has been proposed that would make kratom a schedule 2 drug, as well as require any users to have a prescription to acquire it.

Saturday April 27 is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day and all 30 Michigan State Police posts are serving as drop-off points.

There are now secure kiosks for disposing of your medications for free at all 241 Meijer stores in the Midwest.

You can get rid of your old prescriptions and any unused drugs this Saturday

Those entering the program face no risk of arrest.

Time to go through your medicine cabinet.

We're used to Michigan making lots of "best of" lists, but this is one list where it would be better to not be in the top ten. Wood TV 8 reports that Michigan is among the ten states with the biggest drug problems, according to Wallethub.

On January 13, Major League Baseball announced six Minor League players received 50-game suspensions due to positive drug tests. A former West Michigan Whitecaps player was among those suspended.

It's such a sad, and avoidable problem that we have here in Michigan. Most of us, I think, are aware that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration are coordinating a multi-state investigation of meningitis among patients who had received steroid injections.

The thing about drugs, especially in the early trials, is how safe are they?  What are the potential side effects?  Do the benefits outweigh the risks?  What if you could take a breast cancer drug that would slow the progress of very advanced cases from becoming worse?  It would seem to me that that would be worth the risk.