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NOT MEANT TO LOOK LIKE BLOOD BUT
IT HAYS DEGREED TO APPROXIMATELY
THE SHIRTS OFF THE SHELVES.
THIS IS NEW AT 11:00.
TEENAGE ATHLETE INJURED OPP THE
FIELD AND HOOKED ON THE BE WHY
DOCTORS SUPPOSED TO BE HELPING
THEM BETTER.
KAREN ANDERSON REPORT ARES
TONIGHT THEM UNLIKELY DRUG
ABUSER ARE BECOMING THE NEW FACE
OF ADDICTION HERE IN MASS.
THEY ARE STUDENT ATHLETES AND
TYPICAL TEENS GETTING HURT.
THEY ARE TAKE TYLENOL.
STRUGGLING WITH ADDICTION.
FOR MANY, STARTERS WERE
PRESCRIPTIONS.
HE WAS PLAYING FOOTBALL.
KATHY PIERCE'S SON, TRYSTIAN,
WAS INTRODUCED TO PRESCRIPTION
PAINKILLERS.
ONE WITH WHO HAD BEEN INJURED ON
THE FIELD TOSSED HIM A BOTTLE
AND SAID HOLD IT FOR ME.
HELP YOURSELF.
HE DID TRY TEM.
HE BECAME ADDICTED.
LIKE MANY PEOPLE, WHEN THE
PRESCRIPTIONS GOT TOO EXPENSIVE
AND HARD TO GET.
CHRISTIAN TURNED TO A CHEAPER
ALTERNATIVE, ***.
LAST YEAR, CHRISTIAN DIED
FROM AN OVERDOSE.
LIKE WHEN YOU GET HIGH
SCHOOL.
MIKE IS PORE FOR NATE.
HE IS OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL NOW ON
THE ROAD TO RECOVERY.
SHARING HIS STRUGGLE THAT BEGAN
WITH INJURY AND PRESCRIPTION FOR
PERCOCET.
WHILE IT HELD A UP, WAYS TAKE
THE PILLS.
LITTLE DID I KNOW IT WAS THE
DRUG ADDICTS.
WE HEAR IT FROM DOCTORS AND
POLICE OFFICERS.
WE'RE HEARING IT FROM THE
SCHOOL.
TEENAGE A DRUG USE HAS LONG
BEEN A CONCERN BUT MIDDLESEX
COUNTY KISS STRICK ATTORNEY
MARION RYAN SAYS THERE IS A NEW
FACE TO THE USERS AND THE BOOST
ADDICTION.
YOUNGER MILD CLASS KIDS
SOMETIMES STUDENT ATHLETES
PRESCRIBE PAINKILLERS.
ITEP CAN HAPPEN WAN MONTH.
THE DOCTOR FROM LOWELL GENERAL
HOSPITAL SAYS DOCTORS ARE SIMPLY
TRYING TO TREAT THE PAIN BUT
YOUNG PEOPLE ARE ESPECIALLY
VULNERABLE.
IT WAS WHEN WE ARE TALKING
ABOUT MEDICATION LIKE PERCOCET,
VICK CO DIN.
NO SOLID NUMBERS ON HOW BIG THE
PROBLEM HAS BECOME IN
MASSACHUSETTS BUT THERE IS A
MOVEMENT TO TACKLE IT?
DON'T JUST WALK AWAY.
PIERCE SPEAKING TO PARENT AND
HERE THE DOCTORS AND THE NANCE
THE POLICE AND PROSECUTORS
WORKING TOGETHER FOR ANSWERS.
LIKE TO HEAR THE DOCTOR EXPLAIN
THIS IS FOR PAIN.
THIS IS POTENTIAL LAY DANGEROUS
DRUG.
YOU DIDN'T ABITES, MISUSE IT,
OVERUSE IT.
THINK THE PARENT HAS TO BE
TOTALLY VIGILANT.
ARE THE PARENT.
YOU PRESCRIBE IT.
DON'T TAKE THE CANS TO LET THE
KID HOLD THAT BOTTLE.
YOU HOLD IT.
YOU CONTROL IT.
DOZENS OF POLICE DEPARTMENTS
ACROSS THE STATE WILL TAKE UNUSE
PREDSCRIPTION DRUGS SO THEY
DON'T END UP IN THE WRONG HANDS.
NEXT SATURDAY, THE 27TH.
IT IS NATIONAL TAKE BACK DAY.
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