Thursday, August 25, 2011

Florida To Kentucky Pill Mill Busted

  • {Kentucky}...Authorities in Florida say "the nation’s largest pill mill crime enterprise" was busted Tuesday. The bust focused on the 13 doctors who allegedly were "the engine behind a narcotics network that churned out more than 20 million Oxycodone pills and $40 million in profits." Two of the doctors, Roni Dreszer and Cynthia Cadet, had patients who later died of drug overdoses in Kentucky. Police say they peddled 85 percent of the nation’s pain pills out of walk-up, no-insurance, cash-only storefront operations. According to the indictment, in two years, 80 percent of the prescriptions penned by the George brothers’ doctors,  nearly 67,000, went to patients who lived outside Florida and 43 percent went to people from Kentucky.