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Updated: 11:00 PM Aug 30, 2007
Kentucky’s War on Drugs
Illegal painkillers and the war against drug abuse highlighted a busy morning at one local courthouse.
Posted: 10:49 PM Aug 30, 2007Reporter: Randy Yohe Email Address: randy.yohe@wsaz.com |
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Illegal painkillers and the war against drug abuse highlighted a busy morning at one local courthouse.
Drug task force agents processed about two dozen suspects rounded up in a morning raid-- most charged with felony drug trafficking, selling prescription painkillers on the street.
“We need more education on the pain killer problem,” Task Force Manager Lain Dalrymple said.
Congressman Hal Rogers and other federal and state drug control leaders educated the public. Rogers said the task force success come in part from importing out of town undercover agents not familiar to the local dealers.
“You don't see them, they excel at their job, they get all the video and audio evidence needed,” Hal Rogers said.
Kentucky's Inspector General announced improvements to the successful Kaspar prescription tracking system will now include monitoring border state doctor shopping, and tracking ingredients used in making meth.
“So we will know electronically when how much psudeophedreine is purchased,” KY Inspector General Steven Davis said.
The congressman says on the drug treatment front, Easten Kentucky addicts struggling to get in a center can get up to ten thousand dollar vouchers to go where help is accessible.
“You can go to Florida, to NY, we will pay, but only once,” Rogers said.
Congressman Rogers say five new drug treatment centers will soon open throughout Eastern Kentucky.
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Posted by: WHAT!!TO!!DO!!
on Apr 14, 2010 at 04:28 PM
u know every one in in pain in one why or a nuther and tylenol just dont do any thing for real pain but i have went with a guy to florida to see his doc to get his pain meds and ever one in ther under the age of 40 but they are all on a drug for poeple with cancer they spend about a $1000$ to see the doc and get ther drugs and come back a sell them makeing $12,000 to $15,000and its a drug that if you do it for more then 3to5 day in a row and then stop you go through withdrows thats how strog of a drug it is!!! butthats the way things are in thes country 5 years ago no one did pain meds it was crak and meth and weed poeple have to much time on ther hands idel hands are the devils play grownd ther ant enought jobs and the prices of every thing just ceep going up but yet we have teenagers haveing kids and let every one in the countryand ceep leting poeple live on welfar so we need to make some big changes fast or things are going to get WORSE then we have ever seen and we ant ready
Posted by: concerned
on Sep 3, 2007 at 09:47 PM
yes your right about alot of them being repeat offenders but its like you said they are out the next day to do the same thing and dont get no more than a slap on the hand for it thats why they dont care to get caught just pay a fine and be out but it would be diffrent if those with children who get there hands on these drugs and messes them up or die from it then they are ready to do something about it but they should treat everyone the same and i think alot of them are protected and thats not right at all i think that when you get caught for drugs you should do sometime behind bars and not pay a fine and be turned loose to do the same thing over and overplease think of our children for crying out loud and do more to the drugies in louisa
Posted by: Anonymous
on Sep 3, 2007 at 11:45 AM
The situation with drugs in KY, especially in Louisa is never ending. The suspects of the recent raid were out of jail the next day! Many of them were also frequent offenders. What is it going to take to get these people off the streets forever!
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