Court records show how a pain clinic becomes a 'pill mill'

Before they were raided last year, operators of three local pain clinics speculated that it would be years before federal law enforcement noticed the "blip on the radar" that is Jacksonville.
Much has changed since that conversation.

Federal investigators say they have recordings and other evidence that shows doctors at Jacksonville Pain, Duval Wellness and First Coast Pain and Urgent Care knowingly prescribed large quantities of oxycodone and other lucrative drugs to patients who didn't necessarily need the medication until the clinics' closures last July. The operators were paid handsomely - and they talked about how they could be shut down any day.

The clinics were eventually closed, and their money and security cameras seized for evidence. This week a doctor from the clinics pleaded guilty to a drug charge. Court records from his case shed light for the first time on the scheme behind the clinics, a plan that fits the description of what police call a cash-only "pill mill," where virtually all the patients are seeking painkiller prescriptions

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