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645 Pounds of Medication were collected Saturday in Cambria County for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s National “Prescription Drug Take-Back Day.” Residents could stopped at 29 sites across Cambria County to get rid of their unwanted, unused, or expired medications. Organizers say this could help prevent the cycle of addiction in our area.
Cambria County Drug Coalition has held this event twice a year for the last decade. Organizers say this is the safest way to dispose of medications and needles. Ronna Yablonski, Executive Director of the Cambria County Drug Coalition saying: “We know, that in the wrong hands, the consequences of medication misuse, abuse, or accidental ingestion can be devastating. It’s important for individuals to know that, and then giving them the opportunity to just clean out their medicine cabinets.”
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“We’ve had over 60 boxes, these boxes are full, we’ve seen over an excess of 200 vehicles come through and the response from the community has been great, very appreciative to have these kinds of events take place”, said SGT. Don Coppola with BRPD.
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When a pandemic and an epidemic collide, the path to recovery becomes more difficult. This is why St. Louis County placed heightened importance on this year’s Drug Take Back Day.
“It can absolutely save someone’s life,” Lieutenant Robin Roeser with the Duluth Police Department said.
Each year, the day is held by the Drug Enforcement Administration. It provides Americans the opportunity to clean out their medicine cabinets and turn in unused prescription drugs. Sometimes, people will have partially used medications in medicine cabinets that perhaps they have just forgotten about, Roeser said. They could fall into someone s hands, whether the person was intentionally looking for something or just perhaps a young child not realizing what it was.
Drug Take Back Day scheduled
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Law enforcement officers at locations across the state will be collecting unused medications for safe disposal on April 24.
Included in the effort within Sumber County will be the Belle Plaine Police Department, 419 N Logan St, Belle Plaine. Prescription drugs will be collected from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 24.
The collection events are part of a nationwide effort to dispose of leftover medications to prevent accidental or intentional misuse. Since the Drug Take-Back Day program began in 2010, more than 101 tons of unwanted medications have been collected and destroyed in Kansas alone.
“Unused medications are dangerous for kids, pets and the environment,” said Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt. “Diversion of opioid painkillers, in particular, can contribute to the misuse of these drugs that has become a serious nationwide problem. Getting leftover medicines out of the medicine cabinets and safely destroyed keeps t
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Pharmacist Johnna Harter and pharmacy technician Mary Lowe set up their Drug Take Back Day table at Mannington Pharmacy Saturday. Photo by Sarah Marino
MANNINGTON â Saturday marked National Drug Take Back Day, a day where unused prescriptions could be safely disposed of with the help of local police and pharmacies.
Johnna Harter, the pharmacist at Mannington Pharmacy, said a lot of times kids can get into medicine cabinets where there may be a bottle of old narcotics or other medicines that should otherwise be out of reach.
âThey either take them or sell them. It happens a lot,â Harter said.