Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is taking back prescription drugs this Saturday.
- POLICE & FIRE
- David Rice
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
As part of an ongoing effort to crack down on illegal pill mills and prevent prescription drug abuse, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office once again is taking part in Operation Medicine Cabinet Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. On Sept. 29, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, along with the Tampa Police Department, the Temple Terrace Police Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Hillsborough County Anti-Drug Alliance, will collect unused or expired prescription medications from residents to prevent potentially dangerous drugs from getting into the wrong hands. The unused prescription drugs will be collected at several locations from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Residents will be able to drop off any prescription medications…
Friday, April 27, 2012
It's a good time to clean out medicine cabinets and stem the abuse of prescription drugs, with four collection sites, at Sweetbay Supermarkets in Valrico and Tampa, the Temple Terrace Police Department and MOSI.
To help curb the abuse of prescription drugs, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is again taking part in the National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on April 28. Representatives from the sheriff's office, along with the Tampa and Temple Terrace police departments, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Hillsborough County Anti-Drug Alliance will be aiding in the collection of unused or expired prescription medications. The National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day is a good time for residents to clean out their medicine cabinets of unwanted, unnecessary and expired medications and "to prevent potentially dangerous drugs from getting into the wrong hands," as noted in a sheriff's office announcement. Unused prescription drugs …
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
There were 250 deaths related to prescription drug abuse in 2009, according to the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner. In 1995, that number was just 25.
It used to be cocaine and crack, but prescription drugs are increasingly the drug of choice for addicts in Hillsborough County, according to an undercover agent with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. "We have three or four prescription drug overdoses a week now in Hillsborough County alone. It's a very big problem," said the Brandon detective. "It used to be cocaine but now it's Oxycodone, Xanax and those types of drugs that can be obtained legally with a prescription," he said. Those were just some of the drugs collected Saturday, Aug. 27, during Operation Medicine Cabinet, an effort to remove unused or expired prescription drugs from the home. The drive was sponsored by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, the Tampa Police …
