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Amid overdose crisis, court will weigh physician intent in “pill mill” prosecutions and more under the Controlled Substances Act

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United States , may appear to be an ordinary “pill mill” case, the decision could have a much broader impact on the practice of medicine as well as doctrines of criminal intent. Medicine, they contend, is by nature iterative, and the science of pain medicine in particular continues to evolve. (As