![]() ![]() During one raid, law enforcement found $4 million stashed in cardboard boxes in an attic, Hall said. Some clinics raked in $50,000 a day passing out pills. Shady operators recruited unscrupulous doctors through places like Craigslist to pump out prescriptions. “That was the setup for the pain clinics,” Hall said. Pill mills found fertile ground in Florida, where doctors were once allowed to prescribe and dispense the opioids in the same place. While the data shows most pills went to chain pharmacies like Publix and Walgreens, individual doctors and physicians also ordered millions of doses to their offices. “Florida was a key supplier of diverted powerful prescription opioid medications that supplied not only users in Florida, but throughout East Coast,” said Jim Hall, a drug abuse epidemiologist at Nova Southeastern University. ![]()
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