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PRESCRIPTION DONATIONS

World Medical Relief has had a state-licensed pharmacy since 1966. We are legally certified to accept donated medicine/prescription drugs in the United States. We accept various types of prescription drugs for use in our local and international programs.

 

Donations are accepted at our offices at 21725 Melrose Avenue, Southfield, Michigan 48075. If you are not able to drop off your donation, larger & valuable items can be scheduled for local pick-up by one of our drivers in the Metro-Detroit area. We also accept mail-in product donations.

Due to health regulations, please follow the guidelines below to donate the prescriptions. If you have any questions regarding prescription donations, please call us at (313) 866-5333 or fill out our product donation form.

Prescription Donations

MEDICATION DONATION GUIDELINES

  • We accept vitamins, prescriptions, over-the-counter, and cancer medicines that are not expired

    • If the medicine is short-dated & is an expensive drug like oncology medicine, please call us or fill out the Product Donation Form and tell us about the item(s) you want to donate​. Short-dated medicine will only be considered for international mission trips.

  • Bottles must be sealed (if you take the cap off the bottle from the manufacturer, there will be a seal across the top that you have to open in order to get to the medication), the pills in blister packs that you 'push out' and inhalers must be in their foil/plastic packaging.

    • If the bottle is opened & the medicine is an expensive drug like oncology medicine, please call us or fill out the Product Donation Form and tell us about the item(s) you want to donate​.

  • We accept good-dated (not expired) drug samples from physicians or pharmaceutical companies

  • We do not accept narcotics

World Medical Relief DOES NOT accept narcotics. 

Mail-in Donations: 21725 Melrose Avenue, Southfield, Michigan 48075

Drop-off Location: 21725 Melrose Avenue, Southfield, Michigan 48075

Drop-off Hours: Monday-Friday 8am-4pm (Check the Volunteer Page for holiday hours)

Note: If you are located in the United States outside of the Metro-Detroit area, and you have a significant amount of medicine to donate, give us a call at 313-866-5333 ext. 245 (or fill out our product donation form). If the items you have are valuable, we might be able to help coordinate your donation.

World Medical Relief is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization.

Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. EIN 38-1575570

OTHER RESOURCES

 

Click the links below to find out more about proper drug disposal and drug take backs.

Michigan Drug Disposal

Cancer Drug Repository Program

Program for Utilization of Unused Prescription Drugs

 

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