pill-bottle Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes announced the bust of the city’s largest illegal prescription pill ring and also explained the motivation behind abusing drugs like Oxycontin: “[Y]oung people are abusing pharmaceuticals not simply to get high, but often to improve their performance at work and at school, and while it may be viewed by them as clean and safe…they are as addicted and often as at risk, as anyone pumping heroin into a vein.” |TYW|