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Coalition launches ‘Lock, Inventory, Dispose’ drive by JeFFreY beSSeN jbessen@liherald.com
Two years after its founding, the Saving Lives Five Towns Drug and Alcohol Coalition is launching a new campaign to “Lock, Inventory, Dispose” of prescription medications in an effort to reduce access to drugs. “Prescription data shows that if drug users are able to get used or leftover substances such as
Vicodin or Valium, they either sell it or use it,” said Susan Blauner, an expert in substance abuse treatment who is the coalition’s director. “Because we’ve learned that if someone has an issue with substance abuse, they’re not going to stop.” To keep people from having easier access to drugs, even if they are legal, the coalition launched a major mailing that is being sent next week to public
and private organizations and religious institutions to increase awareness of the LID campaign, which encourages people to lock the medications they need, inventory what they have and dispose of those they don’t need or that have expired. Blauner noted that people are known to attend open houses — when homes are for sale — in Continued on page 17
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