{"id":8987,"date":"2016-07-21T12:26:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T16:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=8987"},"modified":"2016-07-21T12:26:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T16:26:17","slug":"the-o-c-prosecutors-office-has-sent-13000-pounds-of-pills-to-be-burnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/07\/the-o-c-prosecutors-office-has-sent-13000-pounds-of-pills-to-be-burnt\/","title":{"rendered":"The O.C. Prosecutor’s Office Has Sent 13,000 Pounds of Pills to be Burnt"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Thousands<\/a>

Thousands of pounds of unused prescription drugs being hauled away. (Photo: OCPO)<\/p><\/div>\n

Their backs might be stiff, but it was all in a day\u2019s work for detectives from the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

The detectives had a slightly different assignment than usual on Wednesday: loading 2,960 pounds of unused prescription drugs on a truck where they were to be burnt. Wednesday\u2019s haul is a portion of the 13,340 pounds of pills the prosecutor\u2019s office has collected since the agency began \u201cOperation Medicine Drop\u201d in late 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnused medications often end up in the wrong hands, are used illegally, or find their way into our water supply,\u201d said Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato. \u201cIn the worst case scenarios these forgotten pain killing medications lead to addiction or teens becoming unwitting drug dealers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"OCPO<\/a>

OCPO Agent Denis Mitchell (left) gets a pill burn celebration happy dance lesson from OCPO\u2019s Anthony Carrington III. (Photo: OCPO)<\/p><\/div>\n

Operation\u00a0Medicine Drop is the county wide initiative to make disposal of unused medications an \u201ceasy convenient priority for Ocean County residents,\u201d said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the prosecutor\u2019s office. The office has set up collection bins at numerous locations around the county. Locally in northern Ocean County, there are collection bins at the Brick, Point Pleasant Borough, Toms River and Seaside Heights police department headquarters.<\/p>\n

The program has been a resounding success, officials say.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can be difficult to comprehend the amount of medications to account for such a huge total,\u201d said Della Fave. \u201cThe stiff backs of the detectives can certainly attest to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note: For more information on Operation Medicine Drop, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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