Don’t be an enabler. Don’t let unwanted, unused or out dated prescription drugs just lay around the house.
When these substances are readily available they can support an addiction or be the temptation that begins one.
Opioids – pain killers – are among the fastest growing addictions across the country, including right here.
Addictions can come from a variety of circumstances, from the sincere need for pain medications growing into a dependency, to a one time experiment with pills gone horribly wrong.
But whatever the case, an addict is an addict and will do anything to feed that addiction. Unwanted, unused or out dated medications are a means to that end. They also are a temptation to be turned into cash by selling them on the street, or even to a neighbor who innocently enough seems to need a little relief from a physical ailment.
To fight the circumstances that feed the opioid problem, the Fannin County Sheriff’s Office is taking part in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Take Back Initiative.
Saturday, October 26, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., unwanted, unused or out dated prescription medications can be dropped off at the Sheriff’s Office on West First Street. Information will be available for anyone who needs it.
For those not wanting to take part in this public effort, medications can be left in the drop box in the lobby of the Fannin County Detention Center 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Either way, get rid of the pills you don’t want and do it properly through the sheriff’s office.
Don’t flush them down the toilet – they can find their way into the public water supply. Don’t throw them in the trash – an addict might find them.
Help fight the rising drug problem.