Opioid abuse is a national epidemic (File photo)
Open your wallet wide and say how many. That is, essentially, how a quintet of recently indicted doctors and enablers are said to have put more than 600,000 opiod pills on the street in a two-year conspiracy launched in 2016. At street value, that amounts to $20 million worth of drugs, The Detroit News reports.
Federal-court ace Robert Snell reports that two doctors, a clinic owner and two underlings conspired to fake medical records and write prescriptions for oxycodone and oxymorphone, then sell them on the street:
[Clinic owner Iris] Winchester accepted only cash and charged patients based on the quantity, type and dosage of prescription opioids, according to the government.
That's how you know you're in good hands, eh?
Another somewhat unexpected fact: All of those indicted are women. Have a nice evening.
