Sheriff's Office Offers Safe Disposal of Rx Drugs
Deputies team up with DEA offer opportunity to dispose of potentially dangerous drugs.
Dorchester County Sheriff's Office press release Dorchester County Sheriff's Office and the Drug Enforcement Administration will offer the public an opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused or unwanted prescription drugs 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29. Bring your medications for disposal to the Sheriff’s Office at 212 Deming Way, Summerville, and 101 Ridge St., St. George. The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked. Last April, Americans turned in 552,161 pounds — 276 tons — of prescription drugs at over 5,600sites operated by the DEA and nearly 4,300 state and local law enforcement partners. In its four previous Take Back events, DEA and its partners took in …
George RIvera
11:27 pm on Sunday, September 16, 2012
DEA regulations have physicians afraid of writing for opiods, but they want to offer people the opportunity to dispose of them at many DEA nationwide sites. If you want them come and get them. I will keep them until they expire because my VA doctors always gives me a hard time about writing them. You will all regret having done this voluntary surrender of your pain meds the next time you need … more ›