Residents turn in plenty of old pills

DANVILLE – About 500 Vermilion County residents turned in hundreds of bottles of old prescription pills this past week, enough to fill almost four 30-gallon cardboard drums. The medication will soon be picked up and eventually incinerated.

"All this stuff won't go into the river," said John Bodensteiner, pharmacist at Carle RX Express Pharmacy, 622 N. Gilbert St., Danville, which served as the dropoff site for this first-ever Vermilion County pharmaceutical collection. The collection's "been far beyond our expectations."

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