USA: Pharmacies under scrutiny in drug crackdowns
tcpalm.com on December 25, 2011 reported that from the outside, Robert's Drug Store seemed like an ordinary mom-and-pop pharmacy, conveniently located on the first floor of the Stephen P. Clark Government Center, the 28-story heart of Miami-Dade County government. But federal authorities say the pharmacy, steps from a heavily used Metromover stop, was actually operating as a pill mill illegally trafficking in painkillers, part of a wave of rogue pharmacies that have become the new front line in the continuing war on prescription drug abuse in Florida. The pharmacy's owner, Aiman Izzedin Aryan, has had his pharmacy permit suspended by state regulators, and the store, while open, no longer fills prescriptions for oxycodone — or any other drug.
The original article can be found at tcpalm.com.


