YCSO collects nearly 270 pounds of Rx meds
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Efforts are part of DEA s National Prescription Take Back Day
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - The Yuma County Sheriff s Office (YCSO) announced Saturday evening that their Foothills Substation collected approximately 268 pounds of prescription medications as part of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration s National Prescription Take Back campaign.
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The DEA wants your unused prescription drugs
If you have unwanted prescription drugs sitting in your medicine cabinet, the Drug Enforcement Administration will be happy to help out.
The federal drug agency wants your unused or expired prescriptions for its 20th National Prescription Take Back Day on Saturday to help ensure homes are safe from drug abuse.
When walk-in clinics and syringe exchange programs closed at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, experts expressed concern that the virus would exacerbate America’s opioid epidemic.
Those fears have largely played out.
More than 87,000 people in the United States died from drug overdoses over the 12-month period that ended in September 2020, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those drug overdose deaths were the most ever recorded in a one-year period.
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