The Pettis County Sheriff’s Department is one of 10 new prescription drug drop-off points recently established throughout the state through a cooperative effort between the Missouri Youth/Adult Alliance and various local agencies.
Locally we’ve been trying for years to deal with a problem that has been affecting cities throughout the country: prescription drug abuse. Our regular pick-up has been going for a while now and the Oct. 1 event netted 160 pounds of chemicals that aren’t going to end up in our water supply or in the mouths of the people or animals that we love.
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