TODAY: Feds urge people to turn in unused pain pills UPDATED

UPDATE: Martin County locations added

Gary Coronado/The Palm Beach Post

Gary Coronado/The Palm Beach Post

Help prevent prescription drug abuse and pill theft by handing over your unneeded medications today.

Why should you add this to your weekend To Do list?

Simply to lower the odds that your pills could wind up in the wrong hands, enabling an addict or leading to an overdose.

More Americans currently abuse prescription drugs than abuse cocaine, hallucinogens and heroin combined, according to the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

?Medications were the leading cause of poisoning deaths in 2009, according to American Association of Poison Control Centers, and sedatives/hypnotics/ antipsychotics, cardiovascular drugs, opioids and acetaminophen combinations were most frequently associated with poison-related deaths that year. Most medication-related deaths occurred among adults.?

The pill collection campaign is sponsored by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the American Association of Poison Control Centers.

It?s taking place at thousands of locations nationally. About a dozen sites locally will accept the medications between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. today.

A similar campaign held in September 2010 garnered 242,000 pounds — 121 tons — of prescription drugs at some 4,100 sites, according to the DEA.

Here are the local sites that will be collecting the medications:
JUNO BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT
DET. FERTIG
340 OCEAN DRIVE
NORTH PALM BEACH FL, 33408

CVS PHARMACY
IN FRONT OR IN PARKING LOT
11000 N. MILITARY TRAIL
PALM BEACH GARDENS FL, 33410

CVS PHARMACY IN FRONT OR IN PARKING LOT
101 NORTH DIXIE HIGHWAY
LAKE WORTH FL, 33460

WEST PALM BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT PROSPECT PLAZA
3111 S. OLIVE AVE.
WEST PALM BEACH FL, 33401

TEQUESTA POLICE DEPARTMENT
357 TEQUESTA DRIVE
TEQUESTA FL, 33469

CVS PHARMACY IN FRONT OR IN PARKING LOT
3187 SOUTH CONGRESS AVENUE
LAKE WORTH FL, 33461

CVS PHARMACY IN FRONT OR IN PARKING LOT
800 STATE ROAD 7
WELLINGTON FL, 33414

PALM BEACH SHORES POLICE DEPARTMENT
LT. LANGEVIN
247 EDWARDS LANE
WEST PALM BEACH FL, 33404

PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
BOCA TOWN CENTER MALL
NORTH EAST MALL PARKING LOT BY MACY’S
6000 GLADES ROAD
BOCA RATON FL, 33431

DELRAY BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT LOBBY
300 W ATLANTIC AVE
DELRAY BEACH FL, 33444

PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
BOYNTON BEACH MALL
FOOD COURT AREA (EAST MAIN MALL ENTRANCE)
801 N. CONGRESS AVE.
BOYNTON BEACH FL, 33426

JUPITER POLICE STATION
210 MILITARY TRAIL
JUPITER FL, 33458

In Martin County, the county Sheriff will be taking unwanted medications at:

Walgreens (Cove Rd. & US1)
5800 SE Federal Highway, Stuart

Publix
2750 SW Martin Downs Blvd.
Palm City

Sewall?s Point Town Hall
One South Sewall?s Point Road
Sewall?s Point

If you do not find a collection site near you, please check www.dea.gov and click on Got Drugs, as new sites are added.

Source: http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/on-call/2011/04/26/feds-urge-people-to-turn-in-unused-narcotics-and-other-drugs-on-saturday/

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