Pictured in MassLive’s Worcester office is a hand-crank pill press machine purchased from China. Sebastian Restrepo
Editor’s note: This is the fourth story in an ongoing series about how pill presses are changing illicit drug production in Massachusetts and beyond. Read the rest of the series here.
The package arrived at MassLive’s Worcester office like any other FedEx delivery. Inside the cardboard box and tightly wrapped in foam sheets was a machine that has fueled an explosion of counterfeit pill production across the U.S.
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