East Liverpool, OH | October 9, 2016 A police officer holds a...

East Liverpool, OH | October 9, 2016
A police officer holds a drug pipe up as he searches a teenage drug user’s room. The mother called the police after her daughter vandalized the family car. She asked and invited the police officer to search her daughter’s room and take out whatever drugs he found. “Im tired of her using and I don’t know what to do about it…. Just take it all..” Found inside the room were numerous pieces of drug paraphernalia - pipes, bottle caps filled with water, burnt and missing spoons (the mother complained that all her spoons were missing) even ratchets from a ratchet set used to drain heroine into syringes. “Don’t touch anything in this room without gloves,” said the officer, “the carfentanil can kill you… [but] you are enabling your daughter by letting her come back and living here.”

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