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Nassau to accept unused, expired and illegal drugs

Pharmacists Joe Brocavich displays a bag of mixed

Photo credit: Joe Epstein | Pharmacists Joe Brocavich displays a bag of mixed drugs which were turned in.

Nassau County will try something new in its efforts to fight drug addiction among residents: Ask them to turn in their unused, expired and even illegal drugs.

Nassau officials say many teenagers who become addicted to heroin - a drug that has been wreaking havoc in Nassau County in recent years - started by getting addicted to prescription pills that they found in their parents' medicine...

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