 The Sanford Babidji Pharmacy is limiting the use of disposables with new med drop boxes. The blue boxes provide a safe space to get rid of any unused or unneeded medications from people's homes. It has taken nearly two years to get those boxes put into place. While most medications are accepted, there are a few rules to what can and cannot be put into the boxes. Prescription medications, you can drop off here. You cannot drop off anything that's over four ounces of fluid. You can't drop off illicit prescriptions, meaning prescriptions that are, I'm sorry, not prescriptions, medications that you buy on the street or illicit drugs. And you can't put sharps in this container. A few other rules include that items must be dropped off when the pharmacies open, which is Monday through Friday from 8 until 6 and then on weekends from 8.30 until 5. You can also not leave medications outside and while you can put sharps, in these containers, the hospital says they are working on a solution for that next. We have a second phase that we're working on that should be in place within the next couple of months, which is to have a sharps drop. So people who have needles, they're using them because they're diabetic. They're having to give them injections for other reasons, that they'll have a safe place to bring those needles and drop them off so they're not going into the waste, not going into the garbage. And so the people who handle the garbage are safe and don't have to worry about getting stuck by a needle. If you can't make it into the pharmacy, a second drop box is located at the law enforcement center downtown. Sanford Health hopes to add even more boxes in the near future.