Oregon

Rachel Daggett, who had just turned 18 and was a senior at Sam Barlow High School, was found dead in a Gresham home in December when paramedics were called.

Everyone who knows Rachel says that she was always happy, upbeat, and not usually the one who would be drinking and using drugs at parties.  Rachel loved her family, her hair, and her cat, Lily.  She loved cars, playing in the water, and her friends.  One of her favorite things was going to the beach.   Rachel loved her family, and had big plans for the future.  She wasn’t the kind of girl who just sits around lazy, she was a girl on the move.

Rachel’s was helping her friends move.  Reports initially stated that there was a wild party the night of Rachel’s death, but friends close to her that were there before she died say that there was no party, that Rachel was staying the night and helping the young men clean before they moved out of their house.

What killed Rachel Daggett?  An overdose of Oxycodone that she smoked with her friends.  Three men are in custody accused of selling the pills that killed Rachel.  33-year-old Ronald Zaloznik had the prescription and used his little brother and his brother’s friend to sell the pills.

Oxycodone is fast becoming the top drug abused by teens.  Gresham-Barlow School District and Police will be holding a meeting on March 2^nd at Sam Barlow High School’s auditorium to address the issue of drug use in teens.