Sex for Pills - Dozens of Doctors Busted Prescribing/Selling Pills for Sex and Cash
In a bizarre case of peddling pills, a huge crackdown has taken place on 60 doctors, nurses, and pharmacists who've been charged by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Instead of selling pills for money, they've also been selling them for sex in some cases.
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60 doctors, pharmacists charged in opioid crisis bust across five states
Feds: Ky., Ohio doctors among 60 charged in opioid operation
Millions of opioid prescriptions have been handed out this way, fueling the opioid addiction crisis that has become a top killer in recent years. This includes people from many fields, like dentists, nurse practitioners, podiatrists, and orthopedic specialists. Some are so crooked that they do useless procedures to get people to go buy pills. For example, dentists have pulled teeth they didn't need to just to validate getting a prescription for pain pills.
Many patients who take opioids are already addicted, and they do whatever they can to feed their addiction, often to their own termination of life. The dependence on oxycodone, methadone, and morphine is that strong. So strong even, that they will engage in sexual acts just to get prescriptions, which is what we hear street addicts do to get a fix.
The poverty stricken areas are often most vulnerable, and this case of the sex for pill scandal is mostly in the Appalachia region where poverty and drug addiction are high. The pill-pushers let the quantity of drugs keep flowing in, which exacerbated the issue. Tennessee was the worst, where rampant drug abused and malpractice was the highest, seeing the most doctors charged in one area.
Assistant administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration John Martin said the Appalachia region is at the center of this modern epidemic:
"Opioid misuse and abuse is an insidious epidemic. Unfortunately, Appalachia is at the center of it."
Some doctors are proud of what they have been doing, showing no shame for fostering this crisis. One called himself "Rock Doc", prescribing over 800,000 oxycodone and hydrocodone pills, 600,000 benzodiazepine tablets and 1,500 fentanyl patches over three years alone. Doctors and pharmacists even ran "pill mills" to produce so much. The DOJ reports on the production of the mill:
"Between October 2015 and October 2017 alone, the pharmacy allegedly dispensed over 1.75 million pills."
The specific numbers of practitioners involved are 31 doctors, eight nurse practitioners, seven pharmacists and other medical professionals, who were charged in Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Since they are acting like drug dealers, the DOJ will be treating them as such. Assistant attorney general Brian Benczkowski said "If so-called medical professionals are going to behave like drug dealers, we’re going to treat them like drug dealers".
This behavior has amounted to "federally-funded drug dealing", as Special Agent Derrick Jackson told CBS News. Tax payer funded health care programs like Medicare and Medicaid are being abused to foster the opioid crisis.
Over 70,000 deaths have been attributed to the rising opioid epidemic in 2017 alone, as it is easy for people to mistakingly take too many and die from an overdose. Abusing he pills happens quite easily, with the most affected age group between 25 and 34, with 12,325 of deaths from overdoses in 2017. And 2/3 of those deaths were men. Fentanyl is the next opioid crisis, with a higher mortality rate as it's dozens of times stronger than heroin and morphine and easier to get the dosage wrong to die from.
References:
- Massive Federal Sweep Nabs 60 Doctors Accused of Distributing Millions of Opioid Pills for Sex, Cash
- Ohio, Kentucky doctors among 60 charged in pain pill bust acted 'like drug dealers
- Doctors Accused of Trading Opioid Prescriptions for Sex and Cash
- "I would classify it as federally funded drug dealing": Dozens arrested in massive opioid bust
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Institutions and Big Pharma want to take over the drug lords, that's why they will keep the war on consumers.
They are now the drug dealers of this century.
If you buy drugs from them it's legal and you don't go to jail.
They are copying the methods of street dealers, a business exchange of money for death.
And the last word is that their drugs are more addictive than the classical ones.
And as always the big responsible always have a free pass out of jail, and they only process these little ones that were trying to make a business out of the legal racketeering of the Labs.
New dealers selling illegally a business that belongs to Big Pharma that will control the people by owning their bodies and minds, as well as rip off the State along with public money and health.
The lesson to these guys:
Don't rob the new Institutional Mob of Pharma, one of the Big gangs of savage capitalism.
Yup, you got it, but the legal drugs, how dare you buy the illegal ones you evil person! We're going to send you to jail!
Meanwhile mitragyna speciosa or kratom a naturally occurring plant native to SE Asia is being attacked and falsely attributed with a handful of deaths always involving other drugs. Kratom activates opiate receptors but doesn't cause respiratory depression and as a cousin to coffee it has the same addictive dangers as missing your morning cup of coffee..
The FDA is seeking to ban this plant as its offered hope to millions of people around the world that they can wean themselves off government dope with relative ease and eventually get their life back. But, big pharma and the drug lords of the CIA don't like how this impacts the bottom line of their proxy war funding.
BTW, I speak from experience in regards to the efficacy of this plant and like dozens of others I know personally now live free of any exogenous substances with the exception of coffee and sugar. Which are also basically drugs based on the way many people abuse them.
Yeah, ban plants that are natural,a nd keep pushing the more dangerous human-created drugs... brilliant government at work, as usual :/
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