UpdatedTue, Apr 27, 2021 at 8:24 am ET
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Officers from the Mount Vernon District Station pose next to garbage bags filled with unwanted medications collected Saturday as part of the annual DEA National Drug Take Back Day. (Fairfax County Police Department)
FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA Fairfax County Police Department collected 2,038 pounds of unwanted and expired medications Saturday as part of the DEA National Drug Take Back Day, according to a post on the department s official Twitter account.
Officers from FCPD s eight district stations helped county residents drop off unwanted and expired medications.
According to the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, millions of people every year misuse prescription pain relievers, stimulants, tranquilizers and sedatives. Nearly 50,000 people in the United States died from opioid-involved overdoses that year.
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