A pill press and catch basin seized during a Drug Enforcement Administration operation in Massachusetts sits in the federal agency’s New England headquarters in Boston. Sebastian Restrepo
Editor’s note: The use of pill presses to quickly create dangerous counterfeit pills that kill thousands of Americans annually has skyrocketed in recent years. MassLive conducted a months-long investigation into what they are, how they caught on and what’s being done about them. This is the first story in an ongoing series.
On a suburban street awash in the fresh green of late May, PJ Susan “Peach” Goldenberg took a pill and never woke up.
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