Broward’s pill mills: Clinics multiply, drug overdoses climb

Posted on Sat, Apr. 04, 2009
BY SCOTT HIAASEN
Miami Herald

“Broward County has become the painkiller capital of the United States, the notorious home to a cottage industry of storefront pain clinics selling alarming numbers of narcotics and feeding a brazen black market sprawling through the South and New England.

In the last six months of 2008, doctors at Broward’s pain clinics handed out more than 6.5 million pills of the potent painkiller oxycodone — almost four pills for every Broward resident, according to federal data compiled by the Broward Sheriff’s Office.”

To view the full article visit: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/v-fullstory/story/985068.html