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Pill mills in the south have turned into the sellers for prescription drugs without needing a medical reason behind it. A pill mill is â€Å"a term used primarily by local and state investigators to describe a doctor, clinic or pharmacy that is prescribing or dispensing powerful narcotics inappropriately or for non-medical reasons†(Malbran). They are very dangerous places for drug addicts because it is a very easy way to get prescribed any medicine you would like. These places do not accept any cards, they only accept cash, and do not ask you anything your normal doctor would if you went to get a prescription. They are not something states want to have, and that is why states are attempting to shut them all down. Pill Mills are dangerous to have open and can cause harm to more than just the people buying it for themselves. To begin, pill mills have been around for a while and more locations open up every single year. Florida is the top state right now for pill mills, but it is starting to spread to other states. For example, it has spread to Georgia, New Jersey, West Virginia, Missouri, and many more states. These clinics are very dangerous and very hard to catch people. With so many of them being open in Florida the DEA is having trouble shutting down a lot of clinics at a time. The clinics do not look into any medical records and the patient does not even need to get a physical exam. The patient can just ask for their drug of choice and pay with cash only. These sites do not take cards; it is cash only business. Doing this makes it harder for the police and DEA to track the records of these places because they have no records of the people going in and out of the clinics. There are several signs to knowing if it is a pi... ...ause it hurts so bad," explained Amanda Wendorff†(Crawford). This is only one example of a patient that is in pain when they do not have their medicine. It is not fair for a patient with a sickness to be turned away for an actual problem from an actual pharmacy. Pill mills in the state of Florida have been a very big issue for a while and still are, but all the problems are starting to get better and better. They are very dangerous to have anywhere and can cause harm to multiple people at once, not just the person taking the pain killer. Pill mills are a gateway to very big drug addicts and also to drug dealers. It is an easy outlet for them to be able to get a lot of drugs at once and also to be able to sell a lot at once. With pill mills starting to be shut down, many lives will be saved from several circumstances and leave less drug addicts on the streets.