Monday, September 20, 2010

The Bay Citizen - Officers See More Sick and Elderly Selling Prescription Drugs - NYTimes.com

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In Gregory Watts’s 13 years as a San Francisco police officer, he has arrested countless drug dealers. But only recently did he begin to notice that many of them resembled his grandparents.

Easy access to prescription drugs, the authorities said, has created a growing population of the elderly, sick or disabled who sell their medications on the street, often to support themselves financially or to raise money to buy harder drugs.
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