The characters are repeatedly shown crushing up the pills to snort them. The pills shown are colored which means they still have the time release coating on them. Before crushing the pills, one first had to wash or suck the coating off which would leave them white. Also, if you tried to crush them loose, without wrapping them in something durable like a dollar bill, the broken pieces would going flying all over and get lost.
In what is supposed to a take down by law enforcement, the police are shown to be using red lights. In the area being depicted (Blacksburg, Va) and all of Virginia, law enforcement use blue lights.
Blacksburg, Virginia is portrayed as a run down, backwater, hick town. In reality, Blacksburg is a progressive college town that even in 2000 was ahead of the curve in education, research, arts, and technology.