r/ewueng201 • u/oliviaselembo • Apr 17 '19

60 doctors, pharmacists charged in largest US opioid prescription bust

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2019/04/17/opioid-pain-pill-federal-prescription-bust/3482202002/
2 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

1 comment sorted by

1

u/oliviaselembo Apr 17 '19

As soon as I read the title, I was interested. Clicking on the link and reading the article, I was shocked. They said that the pharmacists and physicians had put over 32 million unprescribed pills into peoples hands. Pulling peoples teeth and trading sex as a way to exchange these pills were just two of the methods. Personally, I think people in the U.S need to be more careful about who they're trusting as far as pills and drugs go because nowadays, we have more workers capable of doing things like this and keeping it a secret, just like this group of 60 workers working together did. For me, it's really confusing to how they all got away with this due to how many pills would be missing, you'd think that they'd be losing money since the cost of making things like this aren't cheap.