WHAT ARE PILL MILLS

The "pill mills" being targeted are those that indiscriminately dispense massive amounts of powerful prescription drugs for cash only. Ted Strickland vowed last week to go after pill mills, the doctor's offices across the state that often operate on a cash-only basis.

I have not been in almost a year. A Florida law intended to reform pain management clinics and take aim at disreputable �pill mills� takes effect today amid questions about. CBS News Investigates The Proliferation Of Clinics That. Carmel Cafiero's report on Pill Mills in Florida. TALLAHASSEE | A new Florida law cracking down on "pill mills" that dispense prescription painkillers to addicts and drug dealers is being. The law is intended to eliminate "pill mills" -- walk-in clinics that churn out thousands of prescriptions for powerful painkillers. Bruce Gottlieb is just one of many doctors consulting the Florida Department of Health as it cracks down on pill mills. HOUSTON -- They're legal, cheap and available all over Houston. They've dropped plans to prohibit pain management clinics from.

In last week's Seminole Chronicle, the article about the City Council enacting a moratorium on pain management clinics known as "pill mills". I encourage everyone to view these stories to gain a better understanding of the flagrant practices of "pill mills" and what is being done to try and. Officials in the Ohio River city that some call the epicenter of the prescription-drug abuse problem say they are the first in the state to. An association of the state's pain clinics vowed to sue over the pill mill legislation not yet sent to Gov. I have been to several of them. A 2010 report by the state Office of Drug Control called abuse of. Two doctors and a pharmacist are among four suspects accused of running a secret drug operation with $10 million in assets and a street. Broward County's thriving experiment in free-market health care -- pain pill clinics -- faces tougher regulations as of last Friday... In the wake of Michael Jackson's death, a South Florida town that's ground zero for pain-management clinics�which critics say cater to drug. Most problems involving the illegal activity of prescription drug addiction.

Pill mills," as these clinics are referred to as, have become increasingly popular as the growing problem of prescription drug abuse grips. Added to queue Schlesinger Law Segment - Pill Millsby sunsentinel422 views · 5:35. A new Florida law seeking to crackdown on �pill mills� takes effect Friday, even as it remains under assault by a legal challenge in federal. The city council in Marietta is taking steps to regulate so-called pill mills. The line of people clamoring for painkillers snaked out the front door. In the first of several reports, Local 2 Investigates prescription pill. A West Hollywood psychiatrist and his office manager were arrested by federal drug agents Tuesday on suspicion of conspiring to illegally.

MANATEE � Local authorities are hopeful a new state law targeting �pill mills� will put a dent in a growing prescription pain drug problem. Police say that Florida pain-management clinics, known as pill mills, are probably the No 1 source of illegally sold pills on the streets of. For all the pain the so-called pill mills in Tampa claimed to cure, for many the biggest relief came when authorities shut them down. A Houston physician's license has been temporarily suspended for illegally operating a "pill mill" where thousands of prescriptions for. State lawmakers in southern Florida have given the green light to pill mills. Pill mills have attracted increased attention amid a rising death toll. Unfortunately, however, the practice in these clinics seem to exhibit many of the characteristics of what officials call �pill mills,� clinics where doctors. The start of Florida's computer database to police prescription drug pill mills likely will be delayed for three months, a key legislator. Police became concerned about pain clinics illegally.

When it comes to the unsavory and downright illegal, South Florida owns the market in healthcare scams. Miami-Dade County is the nation's. But How Can You Spot One? Read more by Pia Malbran on CBS News'. The number of pain clinics in Florida has mushroomed in the past few years, which has been bad news for states like Tennessee that are. With South Florida beginning to crack down, the pain pill mills that fuel the Appalachian drug trade are moving northward. A move to create a prescription drug monitoring program in Georgia stalled in the Legislature this year, leaving local governments to combat.