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            • “Pill mill’ is 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. Drug Addiction Treatment
          • Example sentence(s)
            • His parents claim he obtained the pills after a visit to a "pill mill" -- storefronts that often provide powerful narcotics without thorough patient exams and usually on a cash-only basis. - ABC News by
            • City commissioners voted to approve a moratorium on "pill mills." - Wesh.com by
            • A Houston physician's license has been temporarily suspended for illegally operating a "pill mill" where thousands of prescriptions for addictive drugs were written — often to those suspected of being recruited by drug crews, investigators said. - Chron by
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