If you want to know how the "opiod epidemic" truly began, check out this documentary, it's called "Vanguard: The OxyContin Express".
A REAL journalist investigated the "pain clinics" in Florida. They found cars lined up at these clinics, with license plates from all over the country. They interviewed addicts, who told them "Yeah me and my four friends just put our money together to drive down here from Jersey, we're each going to go see the same doctor, tell him we have back pain, get an MRI, he'll point at a spot and I'll say 'yeah that hurts', and he'll write me a script for 60 OC 80mg pills. Then we're going to hit the other clinic, over there (he points to another pain clinic, literally across the street) and get Percocet 30s for each of us." They all had brought slings and crutches to sell their bullshit injuries.
So then this car of 5 Jersey kids heads back to NJ with 300 OxyContin 80mgs and 150 Percocet 30mg pills. That's about $20,000 worth of street value drugs being "LEGALLY" prescribed in Florida and brought back to New Jersey. The trip and the doctor's visits and the prescription costs for the group of 5 is about $300-400, meaning if they sold all of the pills, they're looking at making around $19k in profit, $3,200 for each of the people who went in on this. Of course, they take a lot of the pills themselves, though.
And this was just from ONE of the interviews.
Fuck, yeah I remember all that shit happening. I hardly paid any attention at the time it was happening but I remember hearing about the pill mill busts. That's insane how blatantly this shit was flooded into the population. It's disgusting watching the progression in people
> "Vanguard: The OxyContin Express".
I'm gonna watch that tonight, looking it up now. Thanks
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