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Fort Lauderdale Wants Your Pills

By Zachary Fagenson Thu., Jan. 24 2013 at 12:33 PM
Categories: Health, Pain Clinics, Pill Mills

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Bring out your pills! Leave no injectable behind! Think that two-year old bottle of codeine isn't safe to mix with Sprite? Ditch it!

Fort Lauderdale is hosting a no-questions-asked medication take back on Jan. 27 at 301 N. Andrews Ave. from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The city and much Broward County has long held the distinction of being the capital for illicit distribution of prescription pain medication.

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Week-Old "Detox Unit" in Broward Jail Failed to Stop Pill Abuser From Hanging Himself

By Stefan Kamph Thu., Oct. 18 2012 at 6:42 AM
Categories: Investigations, Pill Mills
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Update: A representative for Armor has clarified that the press release quoted below was not issued in response to our previous story, but was written back in August "to highlight the positive trend in Broward County Jail's successful detox program."

The release highlights many of the program's successes, including a marked reduction in medical incidents at the jail. "Since its inception, the program has treated approximately 11,000 patients and the number of emergency calls related to inmates detoxing dropped a staggering 90 percent," the company states. Crisante's case seems to be an anomaly, but the details are worth considering -- especially because it was a tragic reminder of the widespread epidemic the detox program sought to prevent.

Earlier this week, we brought you upsetting details on the jailhouse suicide of Edward Crisante Jr. in the Broward Main Jail in 2010.

During a few days of what one might consider warning signs that he was not mentally stable, he was making some specific complaints. In particular, he said he felt like his skin was crawling and that he couldn't stop shaking. 

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Pill-Mill Docs Cynthia Cadet, Joseph Castronuovo Plead Not Guilty in Deaths

By Rich Abdill Wed., Aug. 1 2012 at 10:01 AM
Categories: Pill Mills
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The George brothers
Doctors Cynthia Cadet and Joseph Castronuovo were charged last year, along with 30 others, in participating in the George brothers' South Florida pill-mill scheme that dished out millions of pain pills to patients from as far away as Ohio. So far, almost all of those people -- including both Christopher and Jeff George -- have reached plea deals. These two have not, and yesterday, they pleaded not guilty to charges that their prescriptions resulted in numerous deaths.

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Two Doctors Charged in Overdose Deaths From Broward Pill Mills

By Rich Abdill Mon., Jul. 23 2012 at 12:15 PM
Categories: Pill Mills
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The George twins.
See also: Chris and Jeff George's Pill Mill Operation: Your Pulp Reader.

Two doctors who prescribed pills at the South Florida pain clinics of Chris and Jeff George have been charged with dealing the drugs that played a role in the deaths of nine patients. They were originally indicted (with 30 others, including 11 doctors) back in August 2011 as part of the investigation into the brothers' clinics.

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Pill-Mill Schemer Vincent Colangelo Bought 49 Cars, at Least Seven Cheesy Mustangs

By Rich Abdill Tue., Jul. 3 2012 at 12:12 PM
Categories: Pill Mills
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Sell pills, get fastback, go to jail
Yesterday, we told you about Vincent Colangelo, the Fort Lauderdale pill-mill owner who was sentenced to 20 years in the clink. Before he was arrested, however, he was living the high life: The federal government seized millions of dollars in cash and accounts from Colangelo and his co-conspirators and properties worth $2.5 million, including an Okeechobee trailer park.

Also confiscated, according to court documents: 49 cars, almost all of them belonging to Colangelo. The formerly bemulleted dealer used the money to buy classic cars and several cars that aren't exactly classics -- including at least seven Ford Mustangs and four Dodge Vipers.

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Vincent Colangelo Gets 20 Years in Massive Online Pill-Mill Operation

By Rich Abdill Mon., Jul. 2 2012 at 4:07 PM
Categories: Pill Mills
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The Turbo-Mullet: One of the many faces of Vinny Colangelo.
A 44-year-old Davie man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to selling more than 660,000 pain pills from seven South Florida clinics -- including one that shared parking with Broward General Hospital. Vincent Colangelo was also ordered to give up six properties worth more than $2.5 million, $22.4 million in cash, $20,000 in jewelry, and, according to prosecutors, 49 vehicles worth more than $6 million, according to court records.

Colangelo, previously convicted of trafficking cocaine and heroin, pleaded guilty in April, a year after feds raided his clinics. He also admitted to laundering almost $4 million and filing a fake 2009 tax return.

His arrest was part of "Operation Snake Oil," which seems like it might be a bit of a misnomer since the pills totally worked the way they were supposed to.

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Boca Man Arrested on Maryland Pill Mill Charges May Have Run Deerfield Beach Clinic

By Rich Abdill Fri., May 25 2012 at 8:01 AM
Categories: Pill Mills
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What has this guy been up to?
A Boca Raton man arrested last week on accusations he was running a pill mill in Maryland may be the vice president of a Deerfield Beach clinic that was raided by the DEA last year.

Gerald Wiseberg is a 78-year-old from Boca Raton resident currently free on bail outside of Baltimore. He was arrested as part of a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation into a Maryland clinic he was running with a Brooklyn couple -- authorities say they were running a pill mill that dished oxycodone to upward of 120 patients a day.

And it looks like this wasn't Wiseberg's first venture into the painkiller business.
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Gerald Wiseberg, Old Guy From Boca, Accused of Running Baltimore Pill Mill

By Rich Abdill Tue., May 22 2012 at 11:03 AM
Categories: Pill Mills
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Whoa boy.
Pill mills might be a South Florida trademark, but a 78-year-old Boca Raton man is accused of taking the trade to points north.

Gerald Wiseberg posted bond Friday after being arrested on charges that he ran a narcotics operation outside of Baltimore, Maryland, according to the Baltimore Sun.

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Opioid Addicts More Likely to Die Than All Other Drug Users, Even Meth Heads

By Chris Sweeney Thu., Apr. 19 2012 at 5:00 AM
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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. 

One giant bummer of a new study shows that those who opted for opiates as their preferred choice for getting high are 5.71 times more likely to die than someone not abusing drugs. That rate is highest of any drug examined, including methamphetamines and alcohol. 

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Beau Boshers Gets Six Years for Dealing 3.6 Million Pain Pills

By Rich Abdill Mon., Feb. 27 2012 at 11:14 AM
Categories: Pill Mills
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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.

We wrote earlier this month about the workings of the George brothers' pill scams, which could reportedly pull in $50,000 in a day and were linked to at least 56 deaths.

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