Oxy-Girl (Pill-Mills-Economy)
Oxy-Girl (Pill-Mills-Economy) – Festival For All Skid Row Artists “The Oxy-Girl Performance” shot @ Gladys Park in the heart of skid row Florida is the epicenter of a prescription drug abuse epidemic. Each day in communities from Jacksonville to Fort Lauderdale, thousands of doses of powerful narcotics like oxycodone are dispensed in pain clinics — storefront operations also called “pill mills.” Doctors in Florida prescribe 10 times more oxycodone pills than every other state in the country combined. People come from all over the Southeast to visit the state’s pain clinics. Henriëtte Brouwers & Husband John Malpede, founder of Los Angeles Poverty Department; have joined the efforts to bring light to this underground situation with new rewritten song: Oxy-Girl- (The Pill-Mills Epidemic ) Filmed by Michael Blaze for Skid Row Films
Feds spotlight South Florida mental health clinics for Medicare fraud
Filed under: Jacksonville Drug Abuse
They included many with substance-abuse problems who did not meet Medicare's eligibility requirements, prosecutors said. Some of those with drug or alcohol addictions were lured from out of state with promises to put a roof over their heads. Once they …
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Locker No. 1
Filed under: Jacksonville Drug Abuse
The NFL has suspended Kansas City All-Pro linebacker Tamba Hali for the season-opener against Atlanta for violating its policy on substance abuse. No details were disclosed. … A person familiar with the situation says the Jacksonville Jaguars are …
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