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TAKE-BACK LOCATIONS* Chattanooga Police5750 Brainerd Road* Signal Mountain Police1111 Ridgeway Ave.* Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office6233 Dayton Blvd., Hixson* Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office5842 U.S. 41, Ringgold, Ga.* Marion County Sheriff’s Office5 Oak Ave., Jasper, Tenn.* Dade County Sheriff’s OfficeGazebo on Courthouse Square, Trenton, Ga.* Walker County Sheriff’s OfficeCivic Center Pavilion, LaFayette, Ga.* Sequatchie County Sheriff’s Office351 Fredonia Road, Dunlap, Tenn.* Jackson County Sheriff’s OfficeFlat Rock Community Center, Flat Rock, Tenn
Saturday is a first-ever national drug take-back day to keep pharmaceuticals out of rivers and out of the reach of children.
With a soup of pharmaceuticals winding up in the nation’s rivers – including the Tennessee – the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is lending its support to a Drug Enforcement Administration’s drug “take-back” at 1,700 locations around the country.
At the same time, the DEA and local law enforcers hope to stem the growing theft and misuse of prescription drugs such as hydrocodone, Xanax and Oxycontin, especially by children.
“We have seen drugs on kids as young as the elementary level,” said Hamilton County Sheriff’s Lt. Van Hinton, a member of the county narcotics and special operations group. “They’re going to their parents’ and grandparents’ purses or medicine cabinets, and it’s terrible.”