COUNTY — When prescription medication is disposed of improperly, or simply forgotten about, those drugs can end up in the wrong hands.

The American Medical Association’s Opioid Task Force reports that more than 70 percent of people using opioid analgesics for non-medical reasons get them from family or friends.

Simply throwing prescriptions drugs out in the trash or flushing them down the toilet doesn’t completely eliminate the

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