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Saturday, July 19, 2008 --- 32 days ago http://www.wickedlocal.com/raynham/homepage/x469163127/Prescription-drug-use-epi
| During Thursday’s drug sweep, which led to the arrest of 10 drug offenders, Police Chief Louis J. Pacheco overheard a person associated with the arrests describe the prescription drug use as an “epidemic,” adding “everyone our age does pills, they are at every party.” As part of his job, School Resource Officer Louis F. Pacheco talks with teenagers and young adults about the local drug scene. “I know it’s commonplace,” Pacheco said, referring to prescription painkillers like Perkoset and Oxycontin. The drugs are as popular as beer with high school juniors and seniors and adults in their 20s, he said. The highly addictive drugs, classified as opiates or opioids, aren’t just swallowed but all too frequently crushed and snorted to achieve the quickest and most potent high. The pills cost about $60 apiece and are often five times the strength of a typical dosage prescribed by a physician. The high price is attracting big-time drug dealers, those with long records and guns, like several of the suspects arrested Thursday in a joint drug bust with Taunton police. “That whole crew are all real live drug dealers making hundreds of thousands of dollars ruining people’s lives,” Pacheco said. The joint operations, which included the state police, federal agencies and all Bristol County police departments was promoted by Bristol County District Attorney Sam Sutter. “This type of cooperation in Bristol County and in this case beyond Bristol Co ... |
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