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How many people do you know who are addicted to opiate pain killers? I know of a few.
We can always count on Big Gov to be bought by Big Money.
In the wake of the trial and the media coverage it generated, Florida changed many of its laws and established a prescription-pill database to minimize doctor-shopping.
“So the pill mills left Florida, to great fanfare,” Temple writes. “But, unabated and under the radar, the country’s appetite for pills has only continued to grow.” Last year, the number of kilograms of Oxy produced in America jumped from 131,500 to 149,375 — three times greater than in 2004.
And the very agency involved with the take down of George’s pill mills is partly to blame.
As Temple writes, “the manufacturing companies keep asking the DEA for permission to make more pills, and the DEA keeps granting it.”
Twins build drug empire with help from doctors, strippers