As pills killed kids, the state shrugged
State health officials fretted about pill mills, and how adult addicts were dying. Nobody realized that the storefront drug dispensaries were killing kids by the dozens.
“In the nondescript shopping plazas dotting Florida, the unchecked prescription drug marketplace was thriving. Called pill mills, the storefront cash businesses operated with the rush and thrill of candy stores, with long lines of pill-popping addicts chasing their next high. Collectively, it was an incubator for child deaths. Since 2008, 123 children have died after DCF had been told that one or both parents were abusing prescription drugs, a Miami Herald investigation found. More than 85 percent of the children were 2 or younger.”
LINK: http://media.miamiherald.com/static/media/projects/2014/innocents-lost/stories/pill-mills/
Bernard Cantor, MD
Primary prescribing and dispensing physician at this DEA busted Pill Mill
The “owner” of this clinic and many other clinics, Vincent Coangelo, is sitting in federal prison.
LINK: http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2012/07/vincent_colangelo_gets_20_year.php
Dr. B Cantor is now rising star now, he is teaching medical students!
He has a clear and active medical license and no discipline on file with the FL Board of Medicine
Are you ok with this type of “public health safety”, the mission of the FL DOH/MQA and Boards of Medicine and Osteopathy?
