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5 New York doctors prescribed 8.5 million ‘heroin’ pills

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Oct. 11, 2018 – Five New York doctors were charged Thursday with running illegal prescription drug mills that flooded the state with more than 8.5 million oxycodone pills. The opioid pills resulted in the deaths of several people and multiple overdoses, according to Manhattan federal prosecutors. “We are in the middle of an opioid epidemic of epic proportions,” Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said at a news conference. “These doctors were drug dealers in white coats … They did it for a very specific reason: greed.”

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