Pill Mills and the new street drugs
JonnyPistachio
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Florida is the place to go if you want easy access to pain meds. But authorities are cracking down finally.
These brothers ran pain clinics that reportedly made up to $1 million in a single week.
But kids were showing up dead, overdosing.
This article is unreal:
http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/ ... demic?lite
"By cross-referencing files from the Florida Medical Examiners Commission, investigators found that the George’s drugs had a role in 53 overdose deaths in Florida alone. Considering that 80 percent to 90 percent of the patients came from out of state, the number of deaths that occurred outside of Florida must be far greater."
I was talking to a few friends recently who know several people who have good kids that were good students, whose lives have been ripped apart by these addicting drugs. Educate your kids about the dangers of roxys, oxycodone, and xanax.
These brothers ran pain clinics that reportedly made up to $1 million in a single week.
But kids were showing up dead, overdosing.
This article is unreal:
http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/ ... demic?lite
"By cross-referencing files from the Florida Medical Examiners Commission, investigators found that the George’s drugs had a role in 53 overdose deaths in Florida alone. Considering that 80 percent to 90 percent of the patients came from out of state, the number of deaths that occurred outside of Florida must be far greater."
I was talking to a few friends recently who know several people who have good kids that were good students, whose lives have been ripped apart by these addicting drugs. Educate your kids about the dangers of roxys, oxycodone, and xanax.
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"Jeff George assembled a small navy, including a 36-foot racing vessel, a 39-foot sports boat and two yachts, 38 and 55 feet in length. He also bought the shopping plaza housing his favorite strip club. The purchases were a convenient way to launder money, according to the indictment.
Based on what they learned from listening to wiretaps, federal prosecutors believe that the Georges made at least $40 million through the pain clinic and other fraudulent enterprises. In the raid, the government seized about $5 million in cash and property worth $9 million. The rest of the money is still unaccounted for.
During the nearly three years that Georges’ four primary clinics operated, investigators estimated that they churned out roughly 20 million doses of oxycodone."
As mentioned above, "educate your kids." Hell, educate YOURSELVES too.
Sad stuff, and seemingly preventable.
I also remeber florida tryin to pass laws a few years ago to prevent this and unbelievably..
legislation kept turning it down...
you give addicts and greedy dealers an inch and boy they will run miles with it...