JSO wants your drugs

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Reported by: Dee Registre

Email: deeregistre@ActionNewsJax.com

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Published: 8/27/2011 6:35 pm

Updated: 8/27/2011 11:13 pm

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Florida is considered the pill-mill capital of the nation, but officers across the state worked to stop prescription abuse Saturday.

Saturday was the second annual Drug-Take Back Day. Anyone with expired or unused prescription or over the counter drugs could have dropped them off with officers at Walgreens with no questions asked.

JSO collected a bag full of medicine from the Dunn Avenue location alone. All of the drugs collected will be burned in an incinerator.

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pepi52 - 8/28/2011 1:26 PM

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i wonder how much money they made

george22p - 8/28/2011 2:56 AM

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I hope they don't mix them with alcohol.

koko1224 - 8/27/2011 10:30 PM

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The concept is great,but with our police dept. 50% of those pills will be right back on the streets,of course, excluding the pills actually recorded with a paper trail ! I live close to the Dunn ave. area and I know you can only trust a few ofthe cops, I've asked for their help in helping to get the drugs out of our area, EVEN when I gave them HD dvd recordings they wouldn't do anything !!!!!

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