Addict used forged drug prescription

A pathologist’s assistant who became addicted to anti-depression medication was apprehended in Cork trying to get Xanax with a forged prescription.

Desmond McCabe, aged 49, of 49 Thomas Davis St, Blackpool, Cork, yesterday pleaded guilty at Cork District Court to using the forged prescription to obtain the medication.

McCabe is originally from Dublin, where he used to work as a pathologist’s technician in a number of hospitals. He was caught in Aug 2011 trying to get the benzodiazepine-type drug at Sam McCauley’s chemist in Blackpool Shopping Centre.