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Bring your unused meds
County residents will have another chance to turn in their unused medicines and drugs that are just sitting in drawers, cabinets and closets.
On Saturday, eight area police departments are setting up locations to collect the unused medicines. This is a very important, proactive event to help take the opportunity away from kids who either are curious, experimenting or just wants to make a few bucks by selling old pills.
“We know through our surveys that a lot of excessive medications are ending up in the hands of our youth, and that’s a source for some of the pharmaceuticals in the street,” said Fairfield police Chief Mike Dickey.
It also makes drinking water safer. Dickey could only imagine if the 215 pounds of medication his police department collected in 2010 seeped its way into the ground water.
“If that amount of medication went into our sewer systems and leeched back into our well fields at one time, we’d have a lot of people taking a lot of medications they didn’t expect,” Dickey said.
More than 1,600 pounds of old prescription medication was collected in 2010, the most was on Sept. 18, the first national Drug Take Back Day. Here’s who collected what:
On March 20: Fairfield: 215 pounds
On April 24: Oxford: 100 pounds
On Aug. 18: Ross Twp.: 14 pounds
On Sept. 18: Hamilton: 360 pounds, West Chester Twp.: 247.5 pounds, Middletown: 190 pounds, Monroe: 134 pounds, Fairfield Twp.: 126 pounds, Liberty Twp.: 124.4 pounds
On Sept. 25: Oxford: 160 pounds
To help you out, here’s a map of where each of the eight medication collection locations will be on Saturday.
View Drug Take Back Day, April 30, 2011 in a larger map
Comments
By Ward
April 28, 2011 12:01 PM | Link to this
I came to this site looking for an opportunity to comment on the siren fiasco yesterday but I guess the Journal News doesn’t want comments that might be negative toward the sheriff’s office and emergency management.