Mariana van Zeller
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We can give you some benzos.
We can give you what's called the South Florida cocktail, which is essentially muscle relaxants, benzos, and Oxycontin.
She didn't say it, but that's what it became known as, is the South Florida cocktail.
But she said, we can give you this, this, and this.
It's the Holy Trinity, right?
And all you need to do is you go to the back of the clinic, and there's a place there where you can get an MRI.
And then you come back to us.
And an MRI is a ridiculous thing because you can read anything into an MRI.
All of us have backs, have a spine, and whatever comes out results in the MRI that a doctor can pretend to look at it.
And say, oh, yeah, yeah, I can see why you're having back pain or neck pain, and I'm going to give you this.
But the problem is that the doctors weren't even looking at the MRIs.
That was just fake.
There was just, you know, in case somebody ever came after them, they could say that they had MRIs.
They were seeing people in less than three minutes and saying they were doing all these less than three minutes.
So you'd have a patient come in.
And then these amazing entrepreneurial twin brothers called the George Brothers built this business.
It was called American Pain.
They basically built a business out of two or three pain clinics.
So my husband did a documentary about it, about the rise and fall of these twin brothers.
They started by selling steroids.