Mariana van Zeller
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Podcast Appearances
And then somebody told him, like, dude, what are you doing selling steroids?
You're making so much more money selling Oxycontin.
It's called American Pain.
You should watch it.
It's really good.
So we reported OxyContin together.
And because we were chased down I-95 by these goons, by these two brothers, by these twins, Darren became obsessed with them and then contacted them in prison.
So it's a really funny story.
I'm going to tell the story.
So we find out that these were the biggest operators.
Five of the top 20 prescribers in the whole country were doctors working for the George brothers.
There were millions of pills they were not only prescribing but selling out of their pain clinics.
They were making millions of dollars.
I mean, so much so that they were stashing it in bags and putting it in the attic, their mother's house's attic and stuff.
There was like insane amounts of money.
And people would come in from all over the country, mainly from Appalachia, and they would come in, drive down, and they would get to these clinics, and they would say, you know, see a doctor for less than three minutes.
The doctor had a rubber stamp to stamp the prescription to make it fast.