re: Louisiana has more opiod prescriptions than people

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Realistically what can be done to address this?

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Two things that I know the Feds have been working.

1. Prescription wholesalers being tasked with ratting on the pharmacies with high opioids fulfillment.

2. Pharmacist being tasked with ratting on the Dr's who write the most scripts which would lead the Feds to the pill mills.

I know a couple states, like West Virgina, have included prescription wholesalers and pharmacist in lawsuits. The lawsuit claims the wholesaler and pharmacy have a responsibility to report Dr's who write high levels of opiate scripts.

Of course, neither of these address the problem of cutting a bunch of addicts off. These just attack the supply side with not enough care for the addicts. The past couple years have proven, cut off the prescription supply and addicts will move to the illegal side.

I was in a pill mill a few weeks ago. It was shocking to see. I went in for strep throat In a walk in clinic. I saw at least 5 to 8 addict looking people come in and all paid cash and spent about 5 to 10 minutes with the dr and walked out with script papers. I was only there a little over an hour.