Pill drop-off aims to fight abuse

Authorities helped folks across the Miami Valley clean out their medicine cabinets on Saturday.

People dropped off their expired or unwanted prescription drugs at Grandview Medical Center.

Organizer said the majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends.

Grandview Police Lieutenant Danny Hobbs said prescription pull abuse is a big problem, especially for teenagers.

"They get them out of the cabinets of their parents home, their grandparents home," he said. "They may not even realize that young adults are abusing those drugs and that's where they're getting them from".

This was the hospital's first time participating in a pill take-back.

It will now turn the drugs over to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration and the drugs will be disposed of.