Last spring, an episode of the TV series "Justified" portrayed a Dixie mafia boss setting up a "pill mill" in a mobile home and getting a corrupt doctor to write phony prescriptions for the painkiller oxycontin so that the thugs could sell the pills to drug users.
WHAT OTHERS SAY: Why is Missouri so friendly to the 'pill mill' business?
Monday, July 30, 2012 | 3:22 p.m. CDT
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