During a search in the booking room, authorities said, Davidson County Sheriff's deputies discovered a plastic bag concealed in his sock that contained 8 Xanax pills, 24 oxycodone pills and 4 oxymorphone pills.
Nationally, more than 40 people die each day from overdoses involving narcotic pain relievers like hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone and oxymorphone, according to a report released in November from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.