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We’ve been using the Jssmst Locking Medicine Box for a few weeks now and we’re impressed with its build quality. The aluminum alloy construction makes it sturdy and durable.

Twenty medicine lock boxes have already been distributed, and the coalition plans to distribute 115 more by September.

These lock-boxes will be sent home with patients who come into the hospital for poison-related cases. They have a code on the top that you need to unlock the medicine, keeping it out of kid’s hands.

Giant Pharmacy locations in Loudoun County, Virginia, are now handing out free medication lock boxes and “drug-deactivation” bags to combat opioid abuse in the county.

Fayetteville will commemorate International Overdose Awareness Day on Aug. 31 by giving away medication lock boxes and planting a tree downtown to memorialize citizens lost to drug addiction.

Chesterfield County is handing out free disposal pouches and medication lock boxes to keep the medications you’re currently using safe and to keep expired medications away from children.