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Narcotics use by teens in middle class Pittsburgh
An editor’s note accompanies a Pittsburgh feature in which teens discuss obtaining narcotics with forged prescriptions. The piece, based on conversations with about a dozen youths, describes how a 19-year-old drug user can write his own prescriptions, use so called friends to obtain pads, and choose pharmacies to avoid police checks. Two teens died and four hospitalized from a dilaudid overdose, prompting warnings about phony prescriptions among white, middle class youths.
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Sara Fritz
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