Prescription Medicine Abuse in Marshall Co.

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Published August 26, 2011 at 9:39 AM EDT

Narcotics detectives in Marshall County say they have identified some residents of southeast Kentucky who obtained questionable prescriptions from doctors in Georgia but went to the lakes region of western Kentucky to have them filled.

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