HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – As part of National Drug Take Back Day, different organizations around Cabell County set up drop off locations so people could drop off prescription drugs in a safe and efficient way.
The latest data from the CDC shows more than 5,000 deaths in Ohio in 2222. More than 2,200 in Kentucky and West Virginia… more than 1,300. The Mountain State has the worst death rate in the country with nearly 81 deaths per 100,000 people.
The Cabell County Sheriff’s Office and the Huntington Police Department partnered with the Prevention Empowerment Partnership to help make sure prescription medications are disposed of in a safe way.
“These are prescription drugs that you can get rid of and you don’t have to keep them. bring them down, to a place that can go and help you or educate you more on how to get rid of them,” said Tasha Hall with the Prevention Empowerment Partnership.
There were three tabling location set up in Cabell County, and HPD always has a drop box available during normal business hours.
Monis Ali, a Pharmacy Student, helped with the event and said “decreasing the prescriptions that patients do not need is extremely extremely important for their health and also people around them. It stops from kids from getting them. It stops from personal who doesn’t need to have this prescription from getting them and also the patient who do not need them from getting them.”
HPD said at the end of the day, they’ll seal this box full of prescription drugs and take it back to the station.
They said the prescription drugs will eventually be destroyed.
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