The Parsons Rotary Club joins with the City of Parsons on a new strategy to destroy unused prescription medicines as well as illegal drugs in the community.

 The Parsons Rotary Club has donated a state-of-the-art Project SMART Drug Destruction Kiosk to be placed in the Police Department Lobby at 217 North Central. Citizens can deposit pills, powders, liquids into the kiosk and the drugs are immediately rendered inactive. 

The SMART Program reduces the amount of unused and expired narcotics as well as illegal drugs that are often flushed down a toilet and end up in the sewage treatment plant and back into the environment.

The kiosk is just a first step in the new partnership with the Parsons Police. The Rotary Club is working with law enforcement to offer free Naloxone training and Naloxone kits not just to first responders but community members.

Plans are also in the works to supply every residence in Parsons with a drug destruction kit that can be returned via the US Postal Service.