What has this guy been up to?

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Whoa boy.

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The heyday of pill mills and opiate overdoses in South Florida may be over, but the ill effects of the craze will likely linger for years. More >>

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Beau Boshers, conspirator of money-laundering or something like that.

​Add one more sentencing to the long list of guilty pleas associated with Christopher and Jeffrey George's South Florida pill mill scheme. Forty-eight-year-old Beau Boshers was one of 13 doctors charged in the $40 million scam and one of 28 people to plead guilty so far; he was sentenced to six years in prison for "money laundering conspiracy," according to the Associated Press, which in this case appears to mean essentially chucking oxycodone out the door with a snow shovel.More >>

George modeling the latest in prison V-neck fashion.

The trouble, prosecutors said, started in 2007, when Jeffrey George was introduced to a pill-mill physician who told George there was money to be made. About a year later, George and twin brother Christopher opened South Florida Pain, with that same physician on the payroll.More >>

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​At least 3,600 pills are missing from the Broward County Office of the Medical Examiner and Trauma Services, according to a blistering report released yesterday by the Broward inspector general that reveals pervasive and destructive neglect by the leadership in the Broward County Office of the Medical Examiner that goes back years.More >>

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​San Diego-based drugmaker Zogenix's resolution for 2012: get the FDA to approve Zohydro, the first pill of pure hydrocodone.

The experimental pain drug, purported to be ten times more powerful than Vicodin, is designed to release its payload of hydrocodone over an extended time. Creative addicts, however, will surely devise ways to circumvent this technology and get a whole lot higher a whole lot faster.

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Jeff George

​On February 27, 2009, Joey Bartolucci walked into East Coast Pain Clinic. He received 150 Dilaudid painkiller pills and 30 Xanax pills, according to prosecutors in Palm Beach County. Sometime that night or the next day, Bartolucci died. Medical examiners attributed the death to an overdose.More >>

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Because Florida needs more zombies.

Last week, Palm Beach State Attorney Micheal McAuliffe made headlines after announcing in a flashy news conference that he was charging a pill clinic doctor and owner with second-degree murder. Such a charge in this type of case is unprecedented.

Although it's an excellent way to highlight an epidemic that's killing thousands of people, some are not big on this strategy. 

"I think it's overreaching," says Nova Southeastern University law professor Robert Jarvis. "The facts have to fit the charges."

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