Attached a link to an article published in today's Miami Herald http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/08/23/2371284/federal-authorities-announce-south.html
reporting that
" For the first time in Florida’s war on prescription drug abuse, investigators are pursuing pill mills as organized crime enterprises — and corrupt doctors as murderers. After a three-year investigation, federal authorities announced the details of Operation Oxy Alley, a sweeping indictment charging 32 people under racketeering statutes for their involvement in South Florida-based pill mills that doled out 20 million oxycodone pills and profited more than $40 million dollars from illegal sales of controlled substances. In a companion indictment, local authorities charged a doctor with first-degree murder in the death of a West Palm Beach man who died within hours of filling a prescription for a painkiller."
"The indictment brought Florida’s prescription medication abuse problem — described by investigators as a homegrown drug epidemic — into sharp focus. Last week, the state’s Medical Examiners Commission released its annual report showing deaths caused by prescription drugs in 2010 were up by about 8 percent. Oxycodone was the cause of death for 2,710 people, about a 28 percent increase since 2009. And about 85 percent of all oxycodone sold comes from Florida."
Its about time!!
Yours
Bernd
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