Federal prosecutors have charged scores of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other medical professionals with scheming to distribute more than 32 million powerful and addictive pain pills, including one who traded opioid prescriptions for sex and another who often prescribed drugs to Facebook friends. The Justice Department on Wednesday described the indictments—part of the Trump administration’s broader push to fight the nation’s drug-abuse crisis—as the “largest prescription opioid enforcement effort ever undertaken.” It...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 17, 2019 20:37 UTC