VA bill targets addicts using pets to get painkillers

February 28, 2018 - A Virginia senator has introduced legislation targeting drug addicts using pets to score painkillers. 

"I've seen it in Virginia," Senator Bill Stanley (R-Moneta) told WRIC in Richmond.  "Veterinarians have come to me and told me this is an issue." 

Senator Stanley added that veterinarians are seeing people harming dogs and cats so they can get opiods prescribed to them, but not for the dog or cat, but to feed their own addiction. 

More on the story HERE from ABC-13 WSET. 


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