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Riverside Police collected 26 pounds of unused prescription drugs on Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, bringing their total collected for the year to 62 pounds. While abuse of prescription drugs has dropped slightly in recent years, over 6.5 million Americans still abuse them, more than double those using cocaine, heroin or LSD. Proper disposal of unused medications is important because most abused drugs are obtained from family and friends' medicine cabinets.

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Riverside Police collected 26 pounds of unused prescription drugs on Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, bringing their total collected for the year to 62 pounds. While abuse of prescription drugs has dropped slightly in recent years, over 6.5 million Americans still abuse them, more than double those using cocaine, heroin or LSD. Proper disposal of unused medications is important because most abused drugs are obtained from family and friends' medicine cabinets.

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NEWS RELEASE

RIVERSIDE POLICE DEPARTMENT


31 Riverside Road, Riverside, IL 60546

28 September 2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Lt. Bill Gutschick wgutschick@riverside.il.us

708.447.2127

Follow RPD on Twitter @pdriverside

Riverside Police Collect 26 Pounds of Pills on Prescription Drug Take-Back Day


Total of 62 Pounds for the Year 2015
On Saturday, September26, 2015 Riverside Police collected 26 pounds of unwanted prescription drugs.
Lt. Bill Gutschick stated, While the number of Americans who currently abuse prescription drugs dropped from 6.8
million in 2012 to 6.5 million in 2013(most current data available), that is still more than double the number of
those using illicit drugs of abuse like heroin, cocaine, and LSD combined. According to the 2013 Monitoring the
Future Survey, over 28 percent of 12th graders had abused prescription medications in the past 12 months. These
statistics magnify the need for proper disposal of unused or expired prescription medications.
The survey of users cited above also found that the majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family
and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet.

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