Every attendee at this year's summit received a unique item and their tote bag a drug destruction pouch that neutralizes almost any drug you put in it, including powerful drugs like oxycodone and fentanyl.

As you just heard about our Mackenzie, Frank has more on how this drug disposal method prevents pollution and potential drug abuse.

There's lots of interesting technology on display at the 2025 Prescription and Illicit Drug Summit, including products that use chemical digestion as a method of safe drug disposal.

Our destroyer is one of the pioneering companies in this field, and their drug disposal formula is used everywhere from hospitals to coroners offices to the bathroom, medicine cabinet.

The journey kind of started in 2010.

Our CEO and founder was on a regional version in the Midwest of like a Shark Tank, and there was a nurse who had lost a young man, to an overdose, kind of dumpster diving, chasing, kind of, destroyed or not fully neutralized medications.

And unfortunately, the young man lost his life and she thought there had to be a better way.

Proper drug disposal in the home is more important than ever.

According to the United States National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an estimated 2.2 million adolescents suffered from a drug use disorder in 2023.

A drug disposal pouch is an easy, ready to use way to dispose of unused medications.

So as you see, this is just our four ounce pouch.

Very, very simple to use.

Based on, like a 200 milligram Advil size tablet, this will roughly do about 80 pills.

So what you would do is if you had just bought the product or it was given to you and you brought it into the home, you would just unscrew the cap, you take your medication and you put it directly inside, and you would just replace the cap.

The process is going to start immediately.

It's neutralizing whatever medications you put inside of that.

So it kind of breaks it down like our stomach.

Then the activated carbon in here adsorb it, not absorb like when you ring something up with a towel.

Adsorption is like a chemical one way transfer.

So it's running that rendering that drug not retrievable.

Our destroyer also partners with government agencies and nonprofits providing disposal containers up to 55 gallons in size.

But whether it's the four ounce pouch or an industrial sized barrel, the liquid formula can handle some seriously dangerous substances, including fentanyl.

And it's not a one and done disposal method.

You can continue to fill the pouch until it's full.

Then just throw it away when those medications are either left over or left behind.

It can pose a threat to our community from getting into our water, into our soil.

So it's a much bigger picture than just at home or just at the hospital.

One of the greatest benefits of this is you can continue to use it for up to a year or until fall.

So if we had medicine in our home today and we put five pills in it, we could come back around Christmas time and still add medication to this.

So the benefit is you have a tool that you can use for up to a year and eliminate that medication from the home, preventing risk of someone taking it, preventing it from going into the toilet or down the drain, and ultimately ending up back in our bodies through consumption or in a landfill and ruining our our soil from our destroyer.

To just add water disposal bags to revolutionary harm reduction and crisis kits.

The summit is connecting those fighting our country's drug crisis with tools they can use to make a difference.

For Kentucky edition, I'm Mackenzie Spink.