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HopeAgain

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4. No it sounds like a "pill mill"

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Sat Jan 20, 2018, 08:34 AM

Jan 2018

and in 2009, they could despense before Florida changed the law. I work in a profession where I was directly exposed to pill mills here in South Florida. If these patients received large doses of pills, were traveling from Tennesee, not given treatment alternatives, being operated by likely mobsters, it is not legit.

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Indicted for Racketeering, Health Care Fraud and Drug Trafficking Conspiracies to Distribute Opioids [View all] nitpicker Jan 2018 OP

Reminds me of the book, American Pain LiberalLoner Jan 2018 #1

Big sprawling investigation unc70 Jan 2018 #2

Pretty much sounds like how pain clinics operate in general ... they don't necessarily 'know' ... mr_lebowski Jan 2018 #3

No it sounds like a "pill mill" HopeAgain Jan 2018 #4

The book American Pain is actually about the biggest pill mills in Florida LiberalLoner Jan 2018 #5

I know all about it. HopeAgain Jan 2018 #6

What a nightmare. I cant imagine how upsetting it must have been to you to watch all LiberalLoner Jan 2018 #7