BOISE -- Police in Boise, Meridian and Garden City in southwest Idaho, and Coeur d'Alene in northern Idaho, have set up steel bins in their office lobbies where unused medicines can be dropped off for disposal.

Properly disposing medicines is a problem because the drugs can pollute drinking water if flushed and leach out of landfills if put in the garbage.

But not getting rid of the unused drugs can also cause problems.

Lt. John Overton of the Meridian Police Department tells the Idaho Statesman that some prescription medications are being bought and sold and handed out at teen parties.

Drugs that are collected by police agencies in the bins are incinerated.