Sentences with phrase «pill mills»
The phrase "pill mills" refers to medical clinics or doctors that illegally and irresponsibly prescribe large amounts of pain medication, often without a legitimate reason or proper medical examination. Full definition
Two Doctors run their Alabama pain clinics like heartless pill mills — illegally prescribing opioids while destroying lives and pocketing millions.
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When our son came of age during the height of Florida's pill mill epidemic, Oxycontin and similar pain pills flooded the halls of our middle schools and high schools, offering cheap, quick escapes for teens struggling to find themselves.
He also pledged to go after companies that produce and distribute certain opioids wholesale to «pill mill» medical practices.
While the «pill mill» was almost certainly illegal, it wasn't nearly as awful as the alleged baby killing and unsanitary conditions at the clinic.
The Women's Medical Society was a «pill mill» by day, according that report.
Not only that, it is harder to crack down on heavily armed drug gangs that sell it than on the unscrupulous doctors who turned their practices into «pill mills.»
She angered medical marijuana activists and major Democratic donors over this and her comparisons of medical marijuana dispensaries to «pill mills», which over-prescribe and over-dispense painkillers to patients with dubious symptoms.
It used to be pill mills, they shut those down, now they have heroin addicts.