The Drug Enforcement Administration has scheduled its National Prescription Drug Take Back event for Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. throughout Delaware.

The event creates an opportunity for those who have accumulated unwanted, unused and expired prescription drugs to safely dispose of them. It is part of DEA’s effort to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding homes of potentially dangerous prescription drugs. The service is free and anonymous, with no questions asked.

DEA will also accept vaping devices and cartridges at any of its drop-off locations Saturday. It cannot accept devices containing lithium-ion batteries.

According to DEA, medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from medicine cabinets.

In addition, Americans are now advised that their usual methods of disposing of unused medicines — flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash — pose potential safety and health hazards.

More information on the event or the disposal of prescription drugs, plus a full list of collection sites, is available here.

Among the sites are the Dover Air Force Base commissary and police departments in Camden, Milford, Middletown, Milton, Lewes and Ocean View, along with the Lewes Board of Public Works.