There’s only one good thing about taking drugs and driving – if the driver speeds, swerves, makes an illegal turn, or does anything suspicious, there’s a good chance they’ll be pulled over by police and get busted for drugs in the process. That’s what’s happened to Michelle, a 23-year-old women in Friendswood, Texas, who was recently busted with a car full of pills.

You wouldn’t think a town called Friendswood would have a drug problem, especially since it was officially named one of the 100 best places to live in the U.S. by Money Magazine in 2007, but there you go.

The car contained a bag of marijuana, some drug paraphernalia, and enough medication to get a few of Friendswood’s 34,000 citizens started on the road to prescription drug addiction – 84 hydrocodone pills, 111 Soma pills, 31 Xanex pills, 26 Adderall pills and 2 Ecstasy pills. 

Several pills were lying around the car in full view – another mistake that, thankfully, people on drugs are likely to make.

The good news – Michelle was stopped for a minor traffic violation, not a traffic accident that could have lowered Friendswood’s population. Although she and her driving companion may already have done so by pushing prescription drugs.

Texas has drug courts – which would give both Michelle and her companion the opportunity to get help at an addiction treatment center – but as they were charged with dealing the drugs, there’s a good chance they’ll wind up in jail instead. Two young lives ruined, but maybe hundreds saved.

One disturbing note – police say there may be further investigation.  May be? If I lived there I’d want every name out of their address books, cell phones, emails, and so on, contacted. They might not be caught with drugs, but I’m sure some of those people will be kids and young adults who have been getting prescription drugs from Michelle and whose parents, for example, can be alerted so they can dig in and find out if their kids have a problem and get them into a drug addiction treatment center. And it may save a few people from prescription drug addiction because they’ll be less likely to take drugs if they know they’re being watched.

Good job, Friendswood. But don’t stop there.

Fortunately, the girl was stopped for

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