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Ohio AG: All-pain clinic gone from hard-hit county
TweetCOLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio’s attorney general says the last pain medication clinic has been closed in a county plagued by painkiller addictions.
The Drug Enforcement Administration has said Scioto County in southern Ohio is one of the worst places in the country for painkiller abuse.
Attorney General Mike DeWine said today that local and state officials shut down Greater Medical Advance in Wheelersburg, about 100 miles south of Columbus.
DeWine says an investigation found 14,000 prescriptions came out of the clinic in nine months.
Four people face charges including engaging in corrupt activity, drug trafficking and drug possession.
The announcement came as a man charged with illegally distributing prescription painkillers planned to plead guilty today in a separate case that Ohio authorities said involved the distribution of hundreds of thousands of pills.
Comments
Nice to see DeWine cracking down on dirt, unlike the worthless Obamite that preceded him as AG. That said, the drug problem in Ohio isn't going to be solved until everyone caught selling or using gets a nice big drug cocktail at Lucasville.
We need to sit down and figure out how to stop the drug epidemic our country is in. The war on drug isnt working
Ridiculous persecution of pain clinics. You know how hard it is to find a doctor willing to write narcotic pain medication and the sh*t you have to go through to get them? Random drug tests, pill counts, they treat you like a criminal.
Even with all of that its still very hard to find a doctor willing to prescribe which is a very serious problem when you're living your life in constant pain. They shut down every pain clinic in that county not all of them were guilty of bending the rules now everyone who is in pain there has to travel even farther to get relief.