By ELIOT KLEINBERG Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Friday, October 02, 2009 The former owner of a Boynton Beach weight loss clinic and his ex-wife are charged with using their cousin’s name to illegally obtain more than 10,000 hydrocodone pills, valued at more than $63,000. Brian Patrick Davey, 57, of Greenacres, and Toni Michelle Davey, [...]

By ANDREW MARRA and ELIOT KLEINBERG Palm Beach Post Staff Writers Thursday, August 27, 2009 ROYAL PALM BEACH — Palm Beach County sheriff’s investigators rounded up another batch of “doctor shoppers” this morning in their ongoing battle against prescription drug abuse, and Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said he will start zeroing in on the doctors themselves. [...]

NEW PORT RICHEY, FL (February 27, 2009) – Sheriff Bob White, United States Attorney A. Brian Albritton, and Special Agent In Charge Mark R. Trouville of the Drug Enforcement Administration announced the indictments of 19 individuals suspected of trafficking oxycodone. Each individual, if convicted, faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. The nineteen [...]

By MICHAEL LaFORGIA Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 02, 2009 For a fourth year in a row, a report by state medical examiners identified Palm Beach County as a hotbed of prescription drug abuse in a region ravaged by pill addiction. The report, which was released Tuesday, indicated that oxycodone and alprazolam – [...]