On Sept. 27, 2014, the 9th National Take Back Initiative took place at Midtown Square in the town of Farmville. Farmville Police Department and the Longwood University Police Department met and collected 94 pounds of prescription drugs during the initiative.
Officer Eric Ellington from the Farmville Police Department andOfficer Jim Thorpe from the Longwood University Police Department joined together in the Drug Enforcement Agency’s DEA Take Back Initiative and managed the collection site in Midtown square.
According to Farmville Police Department’s press release, the initiative aims to eliminate “potentially dangerous” prescription drugs, as well as other medications from homes in the area, allowing residents of the surrounding area to dispose of them safely.
Longwood Police Department stated that they are “happy to report that this brings the grand total of the nine collections to 681 pounds in the past four and a half years.”
