On Saturday, April 29, 2017, from 10 AM to 2 PM, local law enforcement in Contra Costa County and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
Bring your pills for disposal at the following sites. The DEA cannot accept needles or sharps, only pills, patches, and liquids sealed in their original container. The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.
DROP OFF LOCATIONS
- Antioch Police Department (300 L Street, Antioch)
- Brentwood Police Department (9100 Brentwood Boulevard, Brentwood)
- Office of the Sheriff Delta Station (210 O’Hara Avenue, Oakley)
- Pittsburg Police Department (65 Civic Ave, Pittsburg)
This initiative addresses a vital public safety and public health issue. Medicines that languish at home are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet. In addition, Americans are now advised that their usual methods for disposing of unused medicines—flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash—both pose potential safety and health hazards.
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These prescription drugs are the paradox of our age: chemicals that both alleviate pain while hurting you in the end; an endless feedback loop of suffering on a mass scale. It’s a direct sign of the original schizophrenic mindset behind the American drug war…
And the war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence operations to wring the last few hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits from the global drug scam; then defeat will have to be declared. “Defeat” will mean, as it did in the case of the Vietnam War, that the media will correctly portray the true dimensions of the situation and the real players, and that public revulsion at the culpability, stupidity and venality of the Establishment’s role will force a policy review.
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