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The wording of this article seems strange to me. Presumably these painkillers were ordered by local pharmacies on request of doctors/patients, rather than dumpe
by em500 9y ago
The wording of this article seems strange to me. Presumably these painkillers were ordered by local pharmacies on request of doctors/patients, rather than dumped by drug companies in some random places in the towns.
- Theodores 9y agoPill mills - places where nobody has anything better to do than open a pharmacy where the pills get handed out. Prescriptions are needed so doctors have to be in on the scam too. Then word gets around amongst the addict community and this place becomes the place to be to get these drugs. The story is actually very old and the writer may be very new to it - I have known of the epidemic for only a year and clearly it goes back a long time before that. Therefore 'strange wording' might be just because the writer is learning too. Since even Trump has paid lip service to the epidemic it is not that new but maybe the scam is new to most people. 'Only a decentralised blockchain can solve the crisis and win the war on drugs' would have been a new update to the story, alas no, here we have what we already know.