Crimes of Greed
Crimes of Greed: Opioid Pain Pill Prescriptions
As the fight against the opioid crisis continues, authorities are shutting down rogue pain clinics that prescribe massive amounts of oxycodone pills. These are just fronts for criminals who divert pharmaceutical drugs and hook people with chronic pain and a new generation of people with a drug addiction. Opioids are a type of drug that is highly addictive and can be very harmful, even deadly, when misused. People who get opioids from a “pill mill” are more likely to misuse them because they don’t have to go through the proper channels to get the drugs. This means that more people are at risk of developing an addiction to opioids, and more people are likely to overdose on these drugs.
Investigations show individuals participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed massive amounts of addictive controlled substances from pain management clinics. These are not just crimes of greed; these are crimes that make this country’s opioid crisis even worse. Many of these investigations stem from business operations of what was, in essence, a pill mill rather than a pain clinic or medical practice focused on pain management.
The operation of a drug trafficking network peddling prescription drugs for profit under the guise of a medical practice not only violates the law, it undermines the public confidence in the healthcare profession. The opioid crisis and drug overdoses continue to devastate our states and local communities.
Many Physicians and their co-conspirators have prescribed pain pills outside the bounds of legitimate medical practice. The offenses included a conspiracy to dispense oxycodone and other pharmaceutical drugs without a legitimate medical purpose. These medical doctors distributed copious quantities of opiate-based pills to scores of drug-seeking patients. The owners and operators of these pain relief centers generated mass profits by charging patients cash for appointments during which they issued prescriptions for controlled substances for medically inappropriate and potentially lethal dosages and combinations.
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Teresa Abney