Sunday, 8 July 2012

States fight 'tourists' trafficking painkillers



In this photo made April 19, 2012, Gerald Dixon, 53, serving a four-year sentence for transporting prescription painkillers from Florida back to Ohio for illegal sale, describes his drug dealing activities during an interview at Lebanon Correctional Institution in Lebanon, Ohio. Amid a national epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse there’s a busy North-South network. “Prescription tourists” drive vans from Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and other states down to mine Florida’s pill mills. They load up with drugs and head back to sell their bounty. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins) As he sat in the doctor's office, ex-boxer and weightlifter Gerald Dixon explained that years of sports had left him in pain, especially his hands, and he was looking for relief.








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