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Bill from Florida Pill Mill and doctors who sell drugs: Mark S. Germain prosecutor discussed the recent change in drug-related crimes in Florida

Melbourne, FL (Business Wire) 13 October 2010

Senate Bill 2272, also known as Florida? s â? Pill Mill Bill a? ? entered into force 1st October 2010. The bill increases regulation of pain clinics in Florida and the doctors who own or work there. The bill aims to prevent doctors and hospitals from unnecessary pain prescription pain addicts and dealers. Public defender Mark S. Germain, warns that Florida? s new law on prescription drugs can have unforeseen consequences.

28th September 2010, two doctors from Florida were arrested for prescription drug fraud after a five-year investigation. Police officers found the doctors prescribed oxycodone, a narcotic analgesic, in many patients without sufficient medical cause. In one case, doctors have medications a patient who has admitted no pain but the doctor said he liked the effect of the drug prescribed. In another case, one of the doctors prescribed a sleeping pill for a patient? S grandmother without screening or even to talk to the grandmother. If a pharmacy would refuse to fill a prescription? in one case because the patient had recently through treatment for addiction to a drug? the doctors would simply advise the patient to a pharmacy to try .*

stories like these are shocking, because the severity of dependence on prescription drugs. In Florida it is estimated that six people die every day from an overdose of prescription drugs .** But the news of the fraud of prescription drugs is becoming more common. In June, two doctors and one hundred seventy other for the operation of A have been arrested? Milla pill? in Central Florida. Police say the doctors prescribe painkillers hydrocodone someone to pay with money .** And in July, Florida House candidate Ricky Perritt was to trade in hydrocodone, arrested, where police said he was from his wife, a former employee a doctor in Santa Rosa County receive? Office .***

SB 2722, affectionately called â? Florida Pill Mill Bill, â? florida should contain? s trade in prescription drugs through a crack down on the â? Mills pills, â? illegal clinics that prescribe pain medication without medical justification. The bill was passed in June and came into force in October. Among other provisions, the law is empowered to ask inspections and sanctions against pain clinics. It also prevents pain clinics from advertising. Although state officials are promoting the legislation as a step in the right direction, Melbourne warns criminal defense lawyer, Mark S. Germain, that the impact may not be as positive.

â? For many years, drug users and drug dealers have come to Florida to obtain these drugs by regulations. Florida had almost no control over who got to these provisions, because no database is available nationwide. For lines that started around the mills pills, the police started to see how the problem has become.â?

Mark S. Germain, defended the accused of these crimes associated with prescription drugs in Florida went on to explain that the legislation much more is needed than just near the factories of the pill, and said: â? Many provisions in the bill appear ambiguous or too broad. doctors can pain killers for a genuine medical reason for prescribing more reluctant to do this because the question of how this new law will be interpreted and applied. Nursing homes and hospitals to be affected legitimate. If a patient needs medication for pain, could be a delay in obtaining the prescription because of this new legislation to significant and unwanted> burdens.â ????

Melbourne drug crime defender Mark S. Germain continued, â? I hope patients arena? t so by the light of the new officers under the law they intimidated donâ? t find the pain clinics when they have a medical need for such treatment. I also hope that hospitals and nursing homes donâ legitimate? T stop a high-quality care, just because they like the new law allows it, the feeling of a clinical care or the provision of services to low income run too risky. This law can actually achieve the goals of the legislature of Florida. However, it could also prevent good doctors, people who really help pain. Ultimately, everything depends on how the new law be interpreted and applied. Only time will tell.â?

Mark S. Germain is a partner in the law firm of lawyer Germain & Coulter in Melbourne, Florida. The firm Coulter & Germain, this crime in East and Central Florida, including Brevard, Orange, Volusia, Seminole, Osceola and Indian River counties accused.

Mark S. Germain worked as a public defender in Florida? s ninth Judicial Circuit and Florida as the Assistant Attorney? s 12 Judicial Circuit before starting his own practice of criminal defense. Mark’s practice focuses on defending people with serious drug offenses, including fraud and charged with trafficking prescription drugs.

References and further information:

* â? Doctors Two arrested in Port Orange Probe.â Prescription Drug Fraud? Volusia County Sherriff? S-press office. 28. September 2010. http://www.volusia.org/sheriff/press/2010PressReleases/September/100133.htm

** â? 2 doctors, 170 others arrested in the drug trade crackdown.â Central Florida? Amy L. Edwards. Orlando Sentinel. 3. June 2010. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2010-06-03/news/os-orlando-drug-arrests-20100603_1_prescription-drugs-drug-trafficking-pain-clinics

*** â? Perritt Florida House candidate arrested on drug trafficking Charges.â? NorthEscambia.com. 27. July 2010. http://www.northescambia.com/?p=23296

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