If you look through your medicine cabinet you may find a lot of prescription drug bottles that aren't empty.

Betty Klosinski of South Bend has a Good Question: Where can you take unused or outdated medicine for disposal in St. Joseph County?

Each year, South Bend, Mishawaka, St. Joseph County police and a senior advocacy group called Triad team up for a pill drop. This year it will be in September. You can drop prescription drugs off to be incinerated.

It only happens once a year because there are strict legal rules for disposing of the pills, so a large police presence is needed.

It's not illegal to throw prescription drugs out or flush them down the toilet. But that's not the safest way to get rid of them. Flushing down the toilet can potentially cause an environmental problem, and throwing pills out can allow a prescription drug seller or addict to get them.

The South Bend Medical Foundation has the incinerator that disposes of the pills. There are only three of them in all of Indiana.

The Foundation did a pill drop for Elkhart just last Friday and destroyed 488 pounds of prescription drugs.