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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. The government argues, in contrast, that the physician must show she has made an “ objectively reasonable good-faith effort to learn and comply with medical norms.”