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How challenges are changing in battle against opioid epidemic
Judge, law enforcement discuss evolution of fight at UNG forum
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The University of North Georgia Criminal Justice Department hosts an “Opioid Problems in Our Community” seminar Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, on the Gainesville campus. The event features Georgia Bureau of Investigation officials and others working in law enforcement and the criminal justice system. - photo by Scott Rogers
“To give you an example of how bad this was, we raided a pill mill in Bartow County that had so many people coming in to get their prescriptions filled for illegitimate purposes that they had to have a security guard in the parking lot to direct traffic. They had busloads of people coming down from Kentucky to get prescriptions filled for the opioids,” said Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vernon Keenan in a forum Tuesday at the University of North Georgia. Keenan and others gathered Tuesday morning for the Opioid Problems in Our Community forum hosted by the university’s criminal justice department.