rxwine
rxwine
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June 27th, 2012 at 7:50:54 PM permalink
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Roger Gordon, 65, a board-certified plastic surgeon from Plantation, prescribed more than 270,000 30-mg pills of oxycodone in one year, the Florida Department of Health said in an emergency order suspending his medical license Wednesday.



It makes Mexican cartels seem rather inefficient.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-06-27/florida-painkiller-drug-bust/55877040/1
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FleaStiff
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June 27th, 2012 at 9:46:57 PM permalink
Florida was the root source of much of the oxycodine pills but Washington, DC lobbyists were the ones who made it possible.

March 9, 2012 episode of the fifth estate called the oxycontin marketing campaign the most successfully marketed drug ever. Its unfortunate that the link only works if you have a Canadian ISP address.
AcesAndEights
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June 28th, 2012 at 10:38:00 AM permalink
It's nothing new. Here's a story on two brothers than ran a huge pill mill operation and became millionaires before they were finally arrested.
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