Multi State Opioid Bust

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heitclone

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/depart...nal-prescription-opioid-strike-force-arrests/


Pretty big bust by the Appalachian Regional Prescription Strike Force focusing on medical professionals running pill mills, covers 11 states. Hopefully they put the hammer down on these idiots. They apparently thought they were untouchable. A few details...


Thirty-one doctors, seven pharmacists and eight nurse practitioners were charged on Wednesday

The indictment states one doctor in the Western District of Tennessee, who called himself the "Rock Doc," would exchange opioids and benzodiazepines with patients in return for sexual favors. Over a three-year period this doctor prescribed approximately 500,000 hydrocodone pills, 300,000 oxycodone pills, 1,500 fentanyl patches, and more than 600,000 benzodiazepine pills.


A 30-year-old patient in Alabama allegedly overdosed after being prescribed more than 800 oxycodone pills over two months prior to her death, whereupon the doctor who prescribed them allegedly directed the patient's husband to dispose of all pill bottles before police arrived at the scene.

The indictment lists other alleged abuses by medical professionals that include filling fraudulent prescriptions, prescribing opioids to known addicts, and providing Facebook friends with opioid prescriptions based on messenger requests.
 

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The sad thing is that the "success" here will inevitably lead to more people turning to heroin.

"Busts" (either of suppliers or supplies themselves) just make the remaining product (and its close substitutes) on the market more expensive and valuable. This makes the operation even more lucrative for existing players or ones who could jump into the market.
 

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You have to wonder if the impulse to create something like that is terroristic in nature. I mean, the point is to sell to your customers, right? Hard to sell to your customers when they're dead. Is that just a concentrated version that is mixed with other stuff to thin it down?
As crazy as it sounds, sometimes you get more business if someone dies using your product. In the drug world it's a guarantee that you have good stuff. Pure madness!
 

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As crazy as it sounds, sometimes you get more business if someone dies using your product. In the drug world it's a guarantee that you have good stuff. Pure madness!
Not sure I buy that. Surely it can't be that hard to poison someone is it? Then again, probably not the smartest clientele.