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Feds charge Garden City clinic owner who employed pill mill doctor Jamesetta Whipple-Duncan, 58, of Savannah, could face up to 30 years in prison for her alleged crimes, which include receiving kickbacks, making false statements and falsifying records. Share Updated: 1:21 PM EST Feb 8, 2021 Feds charge Garden City clinic owner who employed pill mill doctor Jamesetta Whipple-Duncan, 58, of Savannah, could face up to 30 years in prison for her alleged crimes, which include receiving kick...

Doctor of more than 800 counts of illegally prescribing drugs. in court, a woman described as the doctors operation as a pill mill where people could get drugs without physical exams or medical records. the doctor admitted writing prescriptions for people he never even met but argued some patients deceived him. sentencing is set to begin on wednesday. trace gallagher with the rest. >> reporter: this numbers are astounding. dr. joel smothers prescribed more than a half million doses of opioids. c...

Risk, and basically, helped create the opiate epidemic in oklahoma, which as we all know at this point also led them to a wave of heroin addiction, a wave of synthetic opiate addiction. it says you dont have to be directly reliable for your pill created this person or created an addiction. basically you helped create a big, wide fuzzy problem. >> youre dr. smith, dr. mcgee, and you prescribe some pill. did that doctor, was he ms. led by johnson & johnson as to what that -- the effect of the pill...

The question will be for president trump, going into this year cycle, is it the first question? has the question change? has he been able to do something? have they made accomplishments? she is suggesting not something thats going to help these communities ravaged by functional and taking of power away from doctors and giving it to bureaucrats. it is solving the wrong problem. >> jesse: i thought pro-choice people wanted the government to stay out of the doctor-patient relationship. that was the...

What a lot of people i imagining when they mention a scientist its still in peoples minds even there are a lot of female scientists but because its so male dominated also on boards on panels on the on the media its kind of paper to itself you see its a its a never ending cycle we see them more so its looks like they are more male scientists out there there are still more off them of course but its not the whole picture you see and even strickland the winner of today said there are a lot of femal...

With common sense 392 -- eve person, man woman and child needed 23,000 pills a year of hydro codone. there is no way. it was a pill mill. we had doctors that went to jail. you had a clinic that was closed for corruption. you had a pharmacist who said on record, testified, was making $500,000 a month, a month. >> a pharmacist? >> a pharmacist and his pharmacy testified, jake, he was making as much as $500,000 a month. >> wow. i have to ask, sir, your daughter is ceo of a pharmaceutical company, n...

Marci. >> brandi, thank you. one of the men arrested, a man was a saxophonist, who worked with pretty famous artists in the past, he could face up to 25 years if convicted of the charges he is facing right now. >> police were led to these guys by a confidential informant, someone with three prior drug arrests and led them to these guys and have them in custody. and moving on, authorities here in new york have shut down a major pill mill which sold millions of prescription painkillers on the ...

>> bret: thetruthisitwasntthe a thetruthisitwasntthea thetruthisitwasnttheabortionsl scareeritwasthedrugs. theclinicwasanabortionmillat nig theclinicwasanabortionmillatnig htbut authorities say he was up to no good during the day as well. they raided the clinic because they believed it was a pill mill that illegally sold prescriptions for powerful pain killers and other medicines. >> the search is a culmination of an investigation into a massive illegal drug selling operation involving prescript...

Sharing needles. this isnt restricted to teenagers. i talked to soccer moms who found themselves addicted. a doctor who practiced in my community for 30 years is going to trial in march. federal prosecutors say he was running a pill mill that brought up to $300,000 a month. and one of the people arrest ared was a retired cop, geraldo. >> geraldo: a college educated daughter and admits to being a former prescription drug addict. has come up with a great idea to keep users from doctor shopping. he...

And a lot have hepc from sharing needles. this isnt restricted to teenagers. i talked to soccer moms who found themselves addicted. a doctor who practiced in my community for 30 years is going to trial in march. federal prosecutors say he was running a pill mill that brought up to $300,000 a month. and one of the people arrest ared was a retired cop, geraldo. >> geraldo: a college educated daughter and admits to being a former prescription drug addict. has come up with a great idea to keep users...