RALEIGH, N.C. (WITN) - More than 26,000 pounds of unused medicine medications were collected arsenic portion of Operation Medicine Drop’s Fall Take Back Event and the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Prescription Drug Take Back Day.
The cognition is simply a associated effort betwixt the State Bureau of Investigation, the DEA, and the North Carolina National Guard.
The SBI says that the 26,020 pounds of unused medicine medications construe into astir 19.5 cardinal dosage units, “thanks to the citizens of North Carolina who proceed to capable driblet boxes crossed the authorities astatine pharmacies, hospitals, clinics, constabulary departments, and sheriffs’ offices with unused oregon expired medications.”
WITN is told that connected Monday, Halloween, instrumentality enforcement agencies from crossed the authorities delivered the medications to members of the 3 aforementioned agencies. On Tuesday, the SBI says the medications were “safely and decently destroyed astatine an approved incinerator successful Virginia.”
Operation Medicine Drop is besides partnered by Safe Kid North Carolina, the North Carolina Department of Justice and Attorney General Josh Stein’s Office, the North Carolina Department of Insurance, and instrumentality enforcement agencies crossed the state.
The SBI says since 2013, the cognition has collected 306.3 cardinal medicine pills. You tin spot the amounts collected and destroyed each twelvemonth below:
- 2013 – 20,176 lbs.
- 2014 – 9,932 lbs.
- 2015 – 26,238 lbs.
- 2016 – 41,385 lbs.
- 2017 – 48,354 lbs.
- 2018 – 62,239 lbs.
- 2019 – 68,056 lbs.
- 2020 – 42,815 lbs.
- 2021 – 45,170 lbs.
- 2022 – 44,500 lbs. (spring/fall events)
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