The Ocean County Prosecutor's Office will take part in the DEA's National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, Oct. 24, Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced. Residents can drop off expired and unused prescription medications in front of the Ocean County Library at 101 Washington St. in Toms River from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Here is what will be accepted and how the national program works.

A bipartisan group of nine senators, led by Jim Banks and including Tom Cotton and Adam Schiff, is pressing the FDA to crack down on online sellers using "for research use only" labels to sell unapproved drugs, pointing to a surge in knockoff versions of the experimental weight-loss drug retatrutide. Their Oct. 14 letter cites a 265% jump in related poisonings and asks for a briefing. TDFP first reports the letter.