22-108 Operation Medicine Cabinet Event Scheduled for Saturday, October 29, 2022 - - Pinellas County Sheriff's Office

Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office

Largo Police Department
Kenneth City Police Department
Pinellas Park Police Department
St. Petersburg Police Department
Clearwater Police Department 
Tarpon Springs Police Department

Live Free! Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition of Pinellas County

Operation Par, Inc.

PINELLAS COUNTY – Operation Medicine Cabinet volition beryllium held connected Saturday, October 29, 2022, betwixt 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. astatine the pursuing locations:

NORTH COUNTY LOCATIONS:

• Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office – North District Station, 2496 Bayshore Boulevard, Dunedin, 34698
• Countryside Mall (Southwest Corner) (Clearwater PD), 27001 US Highway 19 North, Clearwater, 33761
• Tarpon Springs Police Department, 444 South Huey Avenue, Tarpon Springs

MID-COUNTY LOCATIONS:

• Largo Police Department, 201 Highland Avenue North, Largo 33770
• Walgreens, 103 Indian Rocks Road, Belleair Bluffs
• Walgreens, 2295 East Bay Drive, Largo
• Walgreens, 10697 Ulmerton Road, Largo
• Largo Medical Center, 201 14^th Street Southwest, Largo
• Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, 10750 Ulmerton Road, Largo
• Walmart, 8001 US Highway 19 North, Pinellas Park

SOUTH COUNTY LOCATIONS:

• Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, 501 6^th Avenue South, St. Petersburg
• Kenneth City Police Department, 4600 58th Street North, Kenneth City
• HCA Florida Pasadena Hospital, 1501 Pasadena Avenue South, South Pasadena
• HCA Florida Northside Hospital, 6000 49^th Street, St. Petersburg

Citizens are invited to halt by immoderate 1 of the fourteen listed locations during the designated times to driblet disconnected their unused and expired medicine medications for harmless postulation and disposal – nary questions asked. Participating agencies person partnered with section Walgreens stores to connection further locations for drop-off. 

Operation Medicine Cabinet is designed to amended the nationalist and rise consciousness astir the occupation of medicine drugs abuse. The situation has reached epidemic proportions, with medicine drugs arsenic the fig 1 abused cause successful the United States, surpassing each different illicit drugs.

Please beryllium alert that nary bio-hazards oregon needles volition beryllium accepted and that the programme is intended for backstage citizens of Pinellas County and not for commercialized use.

As a reminder, driblet disconnected sites are successful the parking batch country oregon lobby of each location. Residents should look for a instrumentality enforcement beingness astatine each of the selected drop-off sites.

For further information, delight interaction the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office astatine 727-582-2222.