Mariana van Zeller
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And this is the sad part.
It's not as if like these pharmaceutical companies or the distribution companies didn't know this was happening.
They just pretended that they didn't because it was huge business and it was great.
Because they had really lax regulations.
So you could go doctor shopping.
You could go – I went undercover.
So that was part of the story that we did, OxyContin Express, where I went undercover into one of these pain clinics.
And I asked the receptionist, I said, I have a little bit of a back pain.
What do I need to do if I want to get some pills?
And she said, oh, what would you like?
And we can give you Oxycontin.
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.