41 charged in opioid ring allegedly responsible for distribution of 23 million pills

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41 charged in opioid ring allegedly responsible for distribution of 23 million pills
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A trafficking network of medical providers, clinic owners, pharmacists, drug dealers and traffickers who have allegedly been responsible for diverting over 23 million opioid pills has been apprehended and shut down by the government. A total of 41 people have been charged in 9 indictments for their

A trafficking network of medical providers, clinic owners, pharmacists, drug dealers and traffickers who have allegedly been responsible for diverting over 23 million opioid pills has been apprehended and shut down by the government.

In one case, the employees at one Houston-area"pill mill" pharmacy allegedly dispensed the ninth highest amount of oxycodone in the nation, which also amounted to the second-most in the entire state of Texas. "This type of criminal activity is, in part, what is fueling the 68,500 overdose deaths per year across the United States," said Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy of the Drug Enforcement Agency's Houston Division."The DEA and our numerous law enforcement partners will not sit silently while drug dealers wearing lab coats conspire with street dealers to flood our communities with over 23 million dangerous and highly addictive pills.

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