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DOJ charges 60 in 5 states -- incl. 31 doctors, 7 pharmacists, 8 nurse practitioners -- for "alleged participation in the illegal prescribing and distributing of opioids and other dangerous narcotics and for health care fraud schemes."
In Tennessee a "doctor who branded himself the 'Rock Doc,' allegedly prescribed powerful and dangerous combinations of opioids and benzodiazepines, sometimes in exchange for sexual favors..."
3/ In Alabama, "a doctor allegedly recruited prostitutes and other young women with whom he had sexual relationships to become patients at his clinic, while simultaneously allowing them and their associates to abuse illicit drugs at his house..."
