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Bluebag Media
Prescription
pills drop-off program growing
GREENVILLE – “We’re amazed at the amount of participation in this
program,” said Greenville Police Chief Dennis Butts. Since the
inception of the program on April 6, 2013, to June 13 this year, the
department has collected 102.75 lbs. of pills.
“No liquids,” Butts said. “Just pills. We take them to Piqua Champion
Foundry. They’re tossed in with the iron ore…” Butts showed a video
he’d taken with his cell phone from the last visit he and Detective
Eric Roberts had made. The fire flared up as the pills were literally
disintegrated at a temperature of 2,819.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
“There was no flame until we tossed in the pills,” he added. “They’re
destroyed. It’s a very ecological way to dispose of these pills.”
Butts said this this is a valuable program for them. “It’s taken a lot
of abusable drugs off the street.” He was referring mostly to narcotic
pain killers, such as morphine, OxyContin, fentanyl… “pretty much
anything that can be prescribed.” He added fentanyl is an extremely
powerful narcotic, typically used in the final stages of cancer. “There
was some heroin laced with it not too long ago. It caused some deaths...
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