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Montgomery County district attorney urges residents to use drug take-back sites as overdose deaths climb
Summary
District Attorney Kevin Steele urged residents to bring unwanted medications to county take-back locations this weekend, citing recent collection totals (6,853 pounds in April; 6,532 pounds last October) and long-term overdose trends including fentanyl and rising stimulant-involved deaths.
District Attorney Kevin Steele urged Montgomery County residents on April 23 to use county drug take-back sites as a key way to reduce accidental poisonings and illegal diversion.
Steele, presenting the county’s take-back initiative, said collection totals are substantial — “6,532 pounds” at last October’s event and “6,853 pounds” in April — and that the program has removed “over 144,000 pounds” of unused medication since the program began in 2010. The events will be staffed at 38 police departments countywide, with additional tables at several grocery stores,…
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