Drugs & the ER

At a news conference last month, Lee Memorial Health System levied a voluntary crackdown on addictive pain medications covering their four hospital emergency departments. "The emergency rooms have become the last vestige for those patients who went to the pill mills to get their medications. They know they can go into an emergency room, fake their illness and get a prescription," says Dr. Larry Hobbs, an emergency physician on Lee Memorial Health System's medical staff. Primary offenders are

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