Hillsborough province collects thousands of pills during DEA Drug Take Back event

HILLSBOROUGH province, Fla - Thousands of pills are This time off the streets & in the right hands thanks to folks who dropped them off at the D-E-A Drug Take Back events in Hillsborough province Saturday. It's the premier time Day has come to a drug take back event, however he tells it was time to get rid of some pills. Mitchell West, a fourth year pharmacy student at USF tells throwing pills away properly can keep a life. You can too down them off at a permanent location in Hillsborough province. There are too bags of activated carbon which help break down & deactivate prescription pills, Extremely you can throw them away in your trash.

Drug Take Back Day successful

The 15th annual "Take Back Day" sponsored with the Blackfoot Police section & the U.S. Drug Enforcement Organization (DEA) at Patriot Field took place final Saturday. People drove up to the ambit, handed their old drugs to Blackfoot Detective Alan Bollschweiler or Detective Kathy Hall & then drove away—no questions asked. There are 2 unused drug collection boxes in Blackfoot. These boxes are located at the Bingham province Courthouse & at Blackfoot City Hall. The box at City Hall is on the 2nd floor lobby, around the corner of the door to the stairwell.

NBPD Bests Former Drug Take Back Day Record with 20 Pounds

referring to Fresh BEDFORD — The abuse of unused prescription drugs are 1 of the leading causes of Opium & other drug addictions in the country. Whether it's forgetting to clean out the medicine cabinet or taking the remainder of a prescription which's no-longer needed, the accessibility of these unused drugs in a household pushes some towards abuse. The NBPD joined police departments across the country in the 15th annual Drug Take Back Day on Saturday. For this year's effort, the NBPD reports a total of 376.eight pounds of unused & unwanted prescription drugs gathered in 14 different boxes, a 20 pounds further than the Former record Determine final year at 356 pounds. Detectives Kelly Almeida & Bryan Oliveira organized the event for the section & assisted in collecting & storing the therapy dropped off inside the NBPD cell Phone Command Center.

collected by :Lucy William

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