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New 'pill mill bill' cracks down on overprescribing painkillers

The U.S. death toll from overdose deaths from painkillers has exploded from less than 4,000 in 2000 to more than 11,000 in 2007, according to the most recent statistics from the federal Centers for

HHS agents uncover WV clinic, doctors illegally prescribing pain meds

The Department of Health and Human Services has caught a ring of West Virginia clinicians at the Justice Medical Complex allegedly prescribing pain meds and handing them out "like candy." Federal