A new U.S. government task force is getting attention for its dedication to stopping the U.S. opioid epidemic by cracking down on drug-dealing doctors and their so-called “pill mills” in a faster and more efficient manner than ever before.
A report from the Associated Press (via the Allentown Morning Call) took a look at the first indictment recorded by the Opioid Fraud and Abuse Detection Unit, and the events that led up to it. For about a year, Dr. Andrzej Zielke’s pain clinic at the Richland Mall in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, had treated scores of patients, many of whom had reportedly traveled “hundreds of miles” to get prescriptions for opioid-based painkillers. Many opioid users would wait long hours outside Zielke’s office, with some patients even sleeping in the waiting room. The report also noted that one of the doctor’s patients had fatally overdosed.
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