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Starkville Academy interim baseball coach and former Major League Baseball draftee Shane Bazzell was weeks away from being arrested on drug charges when he was picked up Jan. 15 by the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office.
Bazzell, 30, of 801 Remunda Drive in Columbus, was arrested on charges of grand larceny for allegedly stealing a four-wheeler. He had been under investigation by the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics for a year for acquiring a controlled substance by fraud.
Mike Perkins, lieutenant colonel of enforcement with the MBN, reports Bazzell visited 13 doctors in Pontotoc, Chickasaw, Lowndes, Union and Clay counties over the past year to acquire Adderall.
Adderall is prescribed to treat attention deficit disorder, narcolepsy and severe obesity and has been associated with amphetamine abuse.
Health Canada in 2005 suspended marketing of Adderall products due to concern about reports of sudden unexplained death in children taking Adderall and Adderall XR, according to the FDA Web site. It has since returned to the market.
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