Doctor Gets Four Years for Selling Hydrocodone

A Los Angeles doctor has been sentenced to four years in jail for dishing out pain meds like hydrocodone as if they were M&M’s. He was even known as “The Candy Man.” Move over, Willy Wonka; Dr. Hanley Healy is the new sweets dealer in town! In fact, the man made over $700,000 in 2008 selling these drugs to people. He dispensed over a million tablets of hydrocodone alone.

I Wasn’t Speeding, Officer; I Was Avoiding Arrest

This kid from Oklahoma was caught speeding twenty miles over the speed limit on Monday, which is not a huge deal. He’s twenty, after all, and we all know what twenty year olds like to do—speed and watch Lost. But he then admitted that he had hydrocodone in the car—and that he’d just sold some—so it upped the offense a bit. 32 pills were recovered from his car total, none of which were with a prescription and all of which were in an unmarked bottle. At twenty, my guess is that he stole them from a parent—but who knows, maybe he’s a pharm school coed doing drug drops on the side.

Their Client Turns Out to Be a Cop

Two women are facing charges for selling 200 tablets of hydrocodone to a Drug Task Force agent. The Minnesotans being charged with a first degree drug sale.

People Get Drugs in Tallahassee?

It turns out that the city is known as the “pill mill capital.” My guess is that it’s because of all of the retired people on pills, but who knows? In hopes of getting a new nickname or stopping the drug sales, the Florida legislature has passed a new bill to help crack down on the…crack. Or pills, rather.