This is the American Greed Podcast presented by CNBC. I'm Stacy Kich.

In this episode of American Greed.

911, what is your emergency?

Americans are dying by overdose in record numbers.

Civil unconscious puzzles are related.

Victims of the worst opioid addiction epidemic in history.

And in Mobile, Alabama, two doctors, Patrick Couch and

Shulu Ron are serving up heavy doses of the dangerous drugs. One drug they

prescribe is brand new.

Made by a multi-billion dollar drug company that is paying the doctors to push its product,

50 times more potent than heroin.

That's more like a lethal weapon than a medicine. And some of their patients who

want relief from chronic pain descend into a living hell. They say it on the pack you may

become addicted. It should say you will become addicted.

But the drugmaker and these doctors are unrelenting,

turning patients pain into enormous profits.

This case was a pill mill that was also a money mill.

And some of the families of patients who die hold the doctors responsible.

He lost his life because he was seeing a doctor that prescribed him that medication and he winds up dying under his care. In Mobile, Alabama in the spring of 2014, Patrick Chosey,

heads to class at the University of South Alabama.

She'll say is an Army veteran, home from two tours of duty in Iraq,

where he always made time to check in with his girlfriend, Amanda.

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