In Shelocta yesterday, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro and Indiana County District Attorney Patrick Dougherty announced a new program that will distribute 300,000 drug deactivation and disposal pouches in twelve counties besieged by the opioid epidemic.
At Klingensmith’s Drug Store along Route 422, Shapiro said the eighty percent of heroin addicts get started on drugs they get from “friends, relatives, or a medicine cabinet.”
The pouches, which are for Schedule II narcotics such as fentanyl, oxycodone, and other prescription painkillers, will be available at 278 pharmacies in Indiana, Cambria, Blair, Butler, Erie, Fayette, Lackawanna, Lawrence, Lehigh, Luzerne, Mercer, and Montour counties. They hold up to 45 pills and when you add warm water to them and seal them, they deactivate the drugs. The pouches can then be disposed of in the trash.
The Deterra Drug Pouch is available to anyone who requests one. There is a website that lists the pharmacies that will have them. Visit www.attorneygeneral.gov/Drug_Deactivation.
One note on that list: many of the Indiana County locations are listed as “Value Drug”, but we’ve listed the actual pharmacy names for you:
| BLAIRSVILLE PHARMACY | 135 E MARKET ST STE 100 | BLAIRSVILLE | 15717 |
| DIAMOND DRUG | 841 HOSPITAL ROAD | INDIANA, | 15701 |
| DIAMOND DRUG | 670 PHILADELPHIA STREET | INDIANA, | 15701 |
| GATTI PHARMACY | 1024 PHILADELPHIA ST | INDIANA, | 15701 |
| SALTSBURG PHARMACY | 237 WASHINGTON STREET | SALTSBURG | 15681 |
| SCERBO’S PHARMACY | 530 FRANKLIN STREET | CLYMER, | 15728 |
| KLINGENSMITH’S DRUG STORE | 9605 US RT 422 HWY WEST | SHELOCTA | 15774 |
| MARTIN’S | 1570 OAKLAND AVE | INDIANA | 15701 |
| CVS | 2501 WARREN RD | INDIANA | 15701 |
| RITE-AID | 200 RESORT PLAZA DRIVE | BLAIRSVILLE | 15717 |
| RITE-AID | 375 PHILADELPHIA STREET | INDIANA | 15701 |
| WALMART | 3100 OAKLAND AVE | INDIANA | 15701 |
| WALMART | 300 RESORT PLAZA DR | BLAIRSVILLE |
