Crenshaw: “I think it’s great (a newspaper’s revelations)

The Oconee County sheriff who rode into office six and a half years ago with a platform promoting drug enforcement and help for those who are addicted, thinks it’s just great that the Washington Post this week has unmasked many of the numbers behind the country’s opioid crisis. Sheriff Mike Crenshaw reacts this way to the newspaper’s stories and analysis: “I think it gives us kind of a historical road map, if you will, of how we as a society have arrived at where we are now.” The Post tracked the path of pills from the manufacturers to the drug stores. Its map of the concentrations shows the Appalachian region as a central point of the epidemic is not surprising to Crenshaw whose officers work with their counterparts in nearby Georgia and South Carolina on illegal drug use and abuse investigations. More of our interview with Crenshaw is airing today on 101.7/WGOG.