This may seem like a small incident involving one pill or allegations of abuse of a pill, but Woodstock Early Bird is told by authorities that the use and abuse of regulated/prescription drugs in our community is a problem as it is in other parts of the country. The Vermont State Police report on this incident illustrates how problems may begin:
STATE OF VERMONT
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
VERMONT STATE POLICE
PRESS RELEASE
INCIDENT: Dispensing regulated drugs to a minor
CASE #: 11D305306
TROOPER: Corliss
STATION: VSP Royalton
CONTACT#: 802-234-9933
DATE/TIME: 12/13/2011 1823 hours
LOCATION (specific): Ramuntos Pizza Restaurant, Bridgewater, VT
VIOLATION: Dispensing regulated drugs to a minor
ACCUSED: Adam Parker
AGE: 19
CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE: Bridgewater, VT
VICTIM: Juvenile
AGE: 15
CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE: Woodstock, VT
SUMMARY OF INCIDENT: On 12/13/11, Vermont State Police dispatch received a call from a concerned parent who reported that her 15 year old son had been given an unknown pill at work and was pressured to take it. Investigation revealed that the juvenile was given an Adderall 20 mg capsule and that he felt pressured by his co-worker, the pill supplier, to consume the pill. The juvenile said that eventually he gave in to the peer pressure and took the pill. The co-worker, Adam Parker of Bridgewater, was arrested and cited to appear in Vermont Superior Court Windsor Criminal Division on 02/03/12 to answer to the charge of dispensing regulated drugs to minors.
COURT ACTION: Yes
CITED – yes DATE: 02/03/12
COURT: Windsor
Vermont Department of Public Safety
Julia Carlisle
Woodstock Early Bird 
Posted by Peter Rousmaniere on February 3, 2012 at 11:23
National data on deaths from use of prescribed pain killers suggest that about 30 Vermonters die each year from these drugs.
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