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State begins pulling pills from South Florida pain clinics
sun-sentinel.com
By Bob LaMendola, Sun Sentinel
7:11 p.m. EDT, July 5, 2011
State agents made a pile several feet tall of the narcotic pills they seized Tuesday from pain clinics in South Florida, as they began enforcing the state's new ban on doctors and clinics selling pain pills.
More than 40,000 pills were removed from 13 of the area's busiest pain centers — 24 statewide — that had leftover pain drugs they can no longer sell because of the new law, law enforcement officials said.
"Florida will not be known as the pill mill capital of the world," said Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who came to Fort Lauderdale for a news conference on the pill seizures. "They are going to be complying with the law, or they are going to be out of business."
The ban on doctors and clinics selling narcotic and addictive medicine is part of a 100-page law that aims to end years of blatant and excessive prescribing of pain drugs. Rogue pain clinics in South Florida, and later the entire state, became the main source of narcotic pills for abusers and dealers in the Southeast. Now, pain doctors are allowed only to write prescriptions, which must be filled at pharmacies.
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More at: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/health/fl-hk-pain-clinic-raids-20110705,0,6634122.story
sun-sentinel.com
By Bob LaMendola, Sun Sentinel
7:11 p.m. EDT, July 5, 2011
State agents made a pile several feet tall of the narcotic pills they seized Tuesday from pain clinics in South Florida, as they began enforcing the state's new ban on doctors and clinics selling pain pills.
More than 40,000 pills were removed from 13 of the area's busiest pain centers — 24 statewide — that had leftover pain drugs they can no longer sell because of the new law, law enforcement officials said.
"Florida will not be known as the pill mill capital of the world," said Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who came to Fort Lauderdale for a news conference on the pill seizures. "They are going to be complying with the law, or they are going to be out of business."
The ban on doctors and clinics selling narcotic and addictive medicine is part of a 100-page law that aims to end years of blatant and excessive prescribing of pain drugs. Rogue pain clinics in South Florida, and later the entire state, became the main source of narcotic pills for abusers and dealers in the Southeast. Now, pain doctors are allowed only to write prescriptions, which must be filled at pharmacies.
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More at: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/health/fl-hk-pain-clinic-raids-20110705,0,6634122.story
