What’s the difference between a street-level dealer who gets caught with a few pain pills, and a doctor who may have written hundreds of prescriptions? According to legal observers, the street-level dealers often face long prison sentences, while the doctors who can afford high-priced attorneys might escape with just probation, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
Pill Epidemic: Prison For Dealers vs. Probation For Docs
![Leon County Judge John Cooper on June 30, 2022, in a screen grab from The Florida Channel.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3888946/2147483647/strip/true/crop/298x225+0+0/resize/880x664!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fhealthnewsfl%2Ffiles%2F201302%2Fpills_0.jpg)
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