Huge "pill mill" busts going on in Florida today. Rush reported to be inconsolable.

sufrommich

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Wed Feb-23-11 04:19 PM
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Huge "pill mill" busts going on in Florida today. Rush reported to be inconsolable.

Doctors targeted today in federal, county raid in pill mill crackdown

Federal and local drug agents raided four Palm Beach County pain clinics and at least two houses today in a sweeping pill mill crackdown here and in Broward and Miami-Dade Counties, authorities said.

The effort, dubbed "Operation Pill Nation," marked the culmination of a year-long effort to dismantle unscrupulous South Florida pain clinics, which authorities say are supplying multi-state drug traffickers and fueling a prescription drug abuse crisis in Florida and across the eastern United States.

It targeted five doctors working out of four medical offices in Palm Beach County, including a former abortionist who is the son of Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua Perper.

In Palm Beach Gardens, North Palm Beach, Lake Worth and Delray Beach, U.S. Drug Enforcement Agents, Palm Beach County Sheriff's detectives, the state attorney's office and other agencies stormed medical offices, detaining customers and, in at least one case, leading a doctor away in handcuffs.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/doctors-targeted-today-in-federal-county-raid-in-1275049.html

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Vinnie From Indy

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Wed Feb-23-11 04:21 PM
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1. The suspects rounded up in this operation

should all petition the court to change their last names to Limbaugh before the trial. It worked for him and maybe it will work for them as well!

Cheers!

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Nevernose

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Wed Feb-23-11 04:22 PM
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2. Something like 80 or 90% of the US's oxycontin

Comes from Florida pill mills.

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sufrommich

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Wed Feb-23-11 04:23 PM
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3. Yeah, there's a reason Limbaugh loves him some Florida. nt

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louis-t

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Wed Feb-23-11 04:32 PM
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4. And yet, every day the drug commercials dominate

daytime tv.

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Warren DeMontague

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Wed Feb-23-11 04:34 PM
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5. Great. The war on pain management continues.

Just fucking wonderful, until one gets something like bone cancer and can't get adequate meds because all the doctors are terrified of the DEA.

Yes, but who cares if people are suffering in pain? The important thing is to make sure no one, ever, gets an unauthorized buzz. :eyes:

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SPedigrees

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Wed Feb-23-11 05:10 PM
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6. If I could recommend a post within a thread...

yours would get a big thumbs up.

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n2doc

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Wed Feb-23-11 05:47 PM
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7. +1 n/t

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Dennis Donovan

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Wed Feb-23-11 05:47 PM
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8. Agreed - and this should also apply to medical cannabis...

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Warren DeMontague

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Wed Feb-23-11 07:04 PM
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10. Absolutely.

Although that should also be legal, regulated, and taxed for recreational use if people so choose.

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girl gone mad

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Wed Feb-23-11 06:24 PM
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9. Yep.

Much of this stuff is sold over the counter in other countries, and they seem to be managing.

Republicans complain about the "nanny state", yet keep expanding the war on drugs until soon even your aspirin purchases will be monitored and limited.

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Warren DeMontague

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Wed Feb-23-11 07:09 PM
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11. Florida. The state that sent a wheelchair-bound man to prison for his pain medication.

Yay, Drug War! :woohoo: :eyes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/opinion/19tierney.html?_r=1&hp

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