Coalition Against Drug Abuse of Clay County- CADA

04/30/2026

Registration is open for our 2nd Annual S.U.R.E. symposium!

📣Registration for our second annual S.U.R.E. (Substance Use Resource & Education Symposium) is now OPEN! 📣

The S.U.R.E. Symposium focuses on resources in the community and supports for those struggling with addiction. We are organizing a great line-up of speakers for you and will have various community resources available for you to learn about between presenters. Additionally, there will be a Hidden in Plain Sight Room which is staged like a teenager's bedroom where signs of substance abuse are hiding in plain sight. CEUs to be offered are pending---stay tuned! Lunch, snacks, and drinks are free for the first 200 registrants, so act fast!

Ways to register:
👉Scan the QR code below
👉Follow the link: www.tinyurl.com/SURE2026
👉Call 618-662-4406 and ask for April or Samantha

Addiction thrives in isolation. Please consider coming to learn from others as we try to support recovery journeys in Clay County.

📆August 11th, 2026 📍Oil Belt Christian Service Camp ⏰9 a.m.-4 p.m., Check-in starts at 8:30 a.m.

04/27/2026

We had another successful prescription drug take back day. Thank you to Chief R***r of the Flora Police Department and Sheriff Myers of the Clay County Sheriffs Office for providing security during the event.

317 pounds of drugs were collected and will be delivered to the DEA for destruction.

04/25/2026

We are set up at Clay County Hospital taking your old medication. We cannot take sharps unless in sharps container. We are here until 1 pm.

08/08/2025

You missed out if you did not make our first S.U.R.E symposium! Thank you to so many people and organizations who made this happen. Thank you to all our speakers, sponsors, and venders. And THANK YOU to all who attended.

We heard so much positive feedback. Hopefully, it can be even better next year!

07/30/2025

Last call. Registration ends tomorrow.

07/10/2025

Just a few weeks left to get registered! CEU's available! Speaker spotlight!

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06/03/2025

Clay County will be sponsoring our first annual SURE Symposium. Come join us on August 7th. Share with anyone who would be interested!

04/25/2025

RX take back tomorrow! Looks like it will not be raining so we will be out front. Just pull up to the front of Clay County Hospital and Medical Clinics main entrance. You will see us!

04/23/2025

Please share!
This Saturday from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the Clay County Hospital.

* We will be only having the drug take back once a year now.
* We can take sharps but they must be separate so we can put them in sharp containers to be taken to the Health Department.
* All medications collected will be delivered to the DEA for destruction.
* We cannot take inhalers, v**e pens, liquids, or illegal drugs.

10/29/2024

Successful RX Drug Take Back Day!

Approximately 278 pounds of RX medications were collected in Clay County to be incinerated by the DEA! Also 4-5 containers of sharps were collected which will be disposed of by the Health Dept.

Thank you to the Clay County Sheriffs Office, Flora Police Department, Clay County Hospital, Clay County Health Department, and Clay County Probation Department.