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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. Ruan’s clinic, the government says, improperly issued more than 300,000 prescriptions for controlled substances over a four-year period.