DEA announces four-state crackdown on illegal pill distribution

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

(Reuters) - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Wednesday announced the results of a four-state crackdown aimed at stopping illegal distribution of addictive prescription medicines, such as opioid painkillers, that yielded 280 arrests.

Dubbed Operation Pilluted, the DEA said 22 doctors and pharmacists were among those arrested on federal and state criminal charges over the course of 15 months. Led by the DEA's New Orleans Field Division, the action, which the agency called its largest-ever prescription drug operation, took place in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi.

"The doctors and pharmacists arrested in Operation Pilluted are nothing more than drug traffickers who prey on the addiction of others while abandoning the Hippocratic Oath adhered to faithfully by thousands of doctors and pharmacists each day across this country," DEA Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown said in a statement.

The DEA also took steps to remove or restrict the ability of registered prescription drug distributors the agency has been monitoring to prescribe or dispense controlled substances.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/u-dea-announces-four-state-crackdown-illegal-pill-223851220.html

[JoeyT]

1. They've done a good job on cracking down on it on the town nearest to where I'm from.

Which is in one of those four states. The place is known locally as a drug town. Nearly everyone there is always hunting tabs or oxys. Almost no one there can find pills at all anymore. It's like they barely exist. Of course, they had 3 heroin overdoses, two of which were fatal, in the last month. In a town of 272 people. So there's that. (Bad batch of heroin came in through Mobile)

Making addictive drugs nearly impossible to get doesn't cure addiction. It just makes addicts move on to other drugs.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

2. That will put a big crimp in access to hillbilly heroin.

[randome]

3. Immediately Bobby Jindal rushed through an executive order...

...to protect the abusers from the consequences of their actions...if such actions stem from sincerely held beliefs.
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