Reply #10: These aren't being prescribed by your well respected family doctor

[LynneSin]

Pain meds, under the proper supervision, can be a lifesaver for someone dealing with excessive pain.

These pain meds are being sold thru storefront drug dealers who setup "Pain Management Stores" at your local seedy strip malls. Many of these places are owned by crime families and other unscrupulous people who will hire shady doctors to spend the day writing countless scripts for pain meds. The doctor doesn't even give you a checkup or follow up with why you are in pain. You just go to a Pain Mgmt center, wait your turn in line and then place your order. You get a script and you are also told which pharmacy to turn in your script. A pill addict from Kentucky can drive to Florida or Ohio (although they finally passed a law to crack down on this stuff) and hit up a few dozen of these places scoring tons of prescription drugs for as little as $5 a pill and then turn around and resell them for $100 on the streets up north.

It was crazy how these 'Pill Mills' work and thanks to lax regulations in states like Florida or at one tie, Ohio, these pills flood the market.

You know, with the crackdown on Crystal Meth (another rural drug problem) I wonder if the drug of choice changed to prescription drugs.