Dispose of unused medication on National Drug Take-Back Day
Dispose of unused medication on National Drug Take-Back Day By WIS News 10 Staff | April 23, 2021 at 4:46 PM EDT - Updated April 23 at 8:24 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - National Drug Take-Back Day will be held on Saturday, April 24 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The day is used to encourage South Carolinians to safely dispose of unused medication.
“The message is clear and simple: take back and dispose,” Attorney General Wilson said. “There’s no question that South Carolina has an opioid crisis and this is a way anyone with unused opioids can fight that. We know that most people who are prescribed opioids don’t use all of them. We also know that most people who start using heroin did so after first becoming addicted to prescription opioids.”
Richland sheriff, Columbia police ask people to turn in unused pain meds. Here s how. David Travis Bland, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Apr. 24 Last year more people died of drug overdoses in Richland County than the previous year, Sheriff Leon Lott said at a Friday news conference.
He and others hope at least one life can be saved by asking people to get rid of unused prescription pain medications on Saturday during National Drug Take Back Day. You can help save someone s life, Lott said at the conference.
Lott and state Attorney General Alan Wilson along with the Columbia Police Department are encouraging people to turn in prescription opoids that may be sitting around people s houses.
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