RISING TOLL

Yet Another Young Person Dies Of Overdose Of Drugs

BROCKTON - The heroin overdose of a former Weymouth High School
honors student this weekend was just the latest in a string of local
drug deaths.

Kelly Molloy, 23, of Rockland, was found dead Sunday night in
Brockton. She died after a two-year battle with heroin addiction.

Molloy was found unconscious on the floor at 678 N. Main St. on
Sunday and was pronounced dead at Caritas Good Samaritan Hospital.

Police found fresh track marks on her arm, said Brockton Lt. John
Crowley, chief of detectives. He said a preliminary toxicology test
showed heroin in her system.

Molloy had been living in Rockland for the past four years and
graduated from Weymouth High School in 2002. She was on the school's
high honor roll her last term senior year.

She went to Massasoit Community College for fashion design. Earlier
in her life, she was a Girl Scout and a cheerleader for Weymouth Pop
Warner football.

Her death came a day after a 27-year-old man was found unconscious at
25 Oak St.

Shawn Saraiva was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital for treatment of a
heroin overdose, Crowley said.

Molloy's death was the latest heroin overdose in the area.

Seventy-four people have died of opiate-related overdoses - including
heroin - between Jan. 1, 2004, and Aug. 31, 2006, an examination of
death certificates filed in 28 local communities found.

From 2003 to 2005, 2,682 people from this region were treated in
emergency rooms for opioid-related abuse, dependency or poisoning,
according to the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy.