The Cash-Only Pain Clinic

A doctor with a medical degree and a PhD in pharmacology worked at a cash-only pain clinic, earning thousands of dollars a week. When local pharmacies refused to fill his prescriptions because the doses looked wrong, he opened a dispensary inside the clinic. Records were sloppy and the clinic bought huge amounts of oxycodone. He later opened his own practice, where several patients died. He says he ran a legitimate pain practice and that the government cannot prove his prescriptions actually caused the deaths.