freep.com on July 13, 2011 reported that the federal government has charged another Detroit-area doctor with running a pain pill scheme in which he allegedly hired recruiters to steer patients to his clinic and then wrote them prescriptions for drugs that ended up on the street. Dr. Baljinder Pannu ran the Pain Management Clinic, which operated in both Warren and Troy. He is charged with paying kickbacks to marketers in 2009 to recruit patients for his clinic, according to information filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court. According to a criminal complaint filed in March, Pannu ran a “prescription mill” in which he routinely prescribed patients a supply of 60 tablets of OxyContin, 90 tablets of Vicodin ES, 60 tablets of Xanax, and 60 tablets of Soma, a muscle relaxer.

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