Operation Pill Popper II Cracks Down On Prescription Drug Trafficking in the Tampa Bay Florida Area

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St. Petersburg Criminal Attorney and Former State Prosecutor Melinda Morris of the Morris Law Firm discusses the recent multiagency operation to crack down on Prescription Drug Trafficking in the Tampa Bay area.

Issue:

Across the Tampa Bay area law enforcement agencies (Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, St. Petersburg Police, Clearwater Police, Largo Police, and the Tampa office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency) recently rounded up 38 people charged with illegally obtaining or selling oxycodone.  Operation Pill Popper II is a continuation of Operation Pill Popper that started in February of this year and was targeting 175 individuals on 375 separate charges.

Tampa Bay Florida holds the unfortunate title as one of the top metro areas for Prescription Drug & Pill Trafficking.  In fact, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) refers to Tampa as “ground zero” for internet diversion (illegal buying and selling, trafficking, and doctor shopping) of pharmaceuticals (prescription drugs, pills).  The DEA is focused on investigations of diversion of hydrocodone (e.g. Vicodin®) and oxycodone (e.g. OxyContin®) as well as Benzodiapezines (such as Xanax® and its generic alprazolam), and methadone.

Why This Matters To You:

Many people are ensnarled in the web of Prescription Drug Trafficking unwittingly.  In some cases professionals in doctors’ offices including Nurses and Office Managers, or other Health Care Professionals are targeted because law enforcement usually cannot target the physician as doctors in the State of Florida are legally allowed to prescribe controlled substances.  Those with serious drug addictions are often found with amounts of controlled substances that qualify under Florida law as Prescription Drug Trafficking.  Most often the quantities are simply enough to support their addiction and should more appropriately be charged as possession.  Further, patients who visit Pain Clinics may be unknowingly involved in what law enforcement determines is Drug Trafficking.

If you are a Tampa Bay health care professional, doctor’s office staff, nurse, or medical doctor, Operation Pill Popper is significant in that it opens the possibility that you may be targeted and prosecuted for your involvement in providing prescription drugs.  Those receiving prescription drugs are also targets of Operation Pill Popper including individuals afflicted with prescription drug addiction and attendees to local area Pain Clinics.

Operation Pill Popper is an ongoing investigation as law enforcement believes that they have just scratched the surface of the problem.

What To Do Next:

If you have been arrested for Drug Trafficking or Prescription Drug Trafficking, contact a St. Petersburg Prescription Drug Trafficking Attorney to discuss possible defenses and specific strategies that may exist in your case.  Call the Morris Law Firm at 727-388-4736 to discuss your case directly with an attorney, or fill out our Online Form to be contacted for a Free Initial Consultation.  The Morris Law Firm can help and has specific knowledge and experience in defending Drug Trafficking or Prescription Drug Trafficking offenders throughout Pinellas County and the entire Tampa Bay, FL Area (St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Tampa, Hillsborough, Pasco, Bradenton, Manatee, and Sarasota).

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It's no secret that the big 3 auto makers have been beating a path to the door in Washington, hoping for up to $75 billion in loans to shore up their bottom line.

Kind of makes you wonder who is next.

But in light of the negative publicity levied on AIG about how they are spending OUR money, I thought it only fair to shine a light on the auto manufacturer's as well.

So amid all those fat benefits, how much could be cut in order to make it more palatable for the Bank of the U. S. Citizens to lend money?

One area might be drug costs.

Current and former union officials share auto executives' criticisms of pharmaceutical companies' advertising, saying that it drives up costs. They say that overall costs for the benefits should be controlled, but not in ways that penalize the health or pocketbooks of workers.

Control costs, but without "penalties".

It certainly is good to know union officials want to help . . . as long as they don't have to give up anything.

Isn't this part of the problem?

Nissan has begun steering employees toward generic drugs by setting lower co-payments for them and higher co-payments for costlier medicines still under patent. DaimlerChrysler made the same change for its nonunion, salaried workers at the start of this year, and found that it helped control costs in the first quarter of 1999, said Nancy Rae, the company's vice president for compensation and benefits.

Steering towards lower costs options is certainly one way to save money. It is worthy to note that DaimlerChrysler was able to make plan alterations for their non-union employees only.

The U.A.W. has long resisted such changes. Union officials maintain that financial considerations should not discourage workers from seeking the best possible medical care.

So why does more expensive = better care?

That is not always the case. This is especially true with medications. Recent studies have shown that older, less expensive drugs are just as effective, if not more so, than newer, higher priced meds but with fewer side effects.

At G.M., viagra accounted for $10 million of the $676 million in prescription benefit costs last year,

I certainly have nothing against having a little fun, but when my tax dollars are in play I might have to say enough is enough.