Pills Kill –

April 28, 2018 – The event is held twice a year and during the last event in the fall the DEA collected nearly a million pounds of drugs. “Prescription drug addiction is just as devastating as heroin addiction,” says John Bellan, a substance abuse counselor at Victory Bay Recovery Center. He works with a program in Gloucester Twp called project SAVE (Substance Abuse Victimization Effort) that support addicts and their families. Managing his own recovery for the last 13 years from prescription drug addiction, Bellan stresses the harm that popping pills for the wrong reasons can do … To learn more about the Drug Take Back Initiative visit and where to drop off medicine visit the DEA office website.

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