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\f0\fs24 \cf0 >> DWANE: DEA agent tomorrow Lennox says the "take back eye "program is
showing signs of success and this is a small example.\
>>> We brought in 9200 pounds, well over a ton more than we did the last event.\
>> DWANE: The DEA and its partners set up drop off boxes for unused prescriptions at
35 locations in San Diego and three in imperial county.\
He says when the program started in 2009 there were only six drop off sites.\
>>> I think that tells me right now that the San Diego community understands the dangers
of prescription drugs and the need to get rid of them and have them properly disposed
of.\ >> DWANE: The program went national in 2010
and San Diego was the first to include marine and Navy drop off sites as well as colleges
and Indian reservations.\ >>> We had three with different college and
universities participating and, again, San Diego being what it is we have travel police.\
>> DWANE: Over the past decade prescription related deaths have increased 85%, agent Lennox
says you don't have to wait for the next event in October\'a0to get rid of your unused drugs.\
>>> Obviously we do these every six months.\ If somebody has prescription drugs they haven't
been able to get to a take back program, currently the San Diego sheriff's department, they have
drop boxes in all of their 24 locations.\ >> DWANE: Agent Lennox says all the drugs
turned in last weekend will be taken to a special facility and burned.\
The local environmental group San Diego 350 is responding to an international call to
action on climate change.\ The group will form a human wave tomorrow
morning to call attention to rising sea levels.\ Dr.\'a0Rajul Treho receives an award tonight
for the Latino community award, for improving the lives of families as well as youth, he
is on staff at the Scripps family medicine residency program and the San Ysidro help
center.\ The game starts at 7:05.\
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