State agents and health officials will begin visiting some 700-800 pain clinics in the state to confiscate what medications they still have. They will start with clinics that ordered at least 2,000 pain pills a month this year or have had a history of bad behavior.
However, most pain clinics stopped selling pain pills last Oct. 1, when the state started barring pain clinics from dispensing more than three days’ worth of pills to each patient. Also, under pressure from federal officials, wholesalers reduced supplies to Florida.
Read the Orlando Sentinel report on pain pills.
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