one thing, which is money. Pharmaceutical companies are looking to sell their products to make money, and doctors are looking to prescribe patients different narcotics. At any given time of a day if you drove past Procter's clinic, you would see a line out the door and around the corner. People fled to his offices for drugs to get the fix they needed. In proper terms, Procter was seen to be running a pill mill. A pill mill is a clinic within a health care facility which is gives patients strong doses of controlled substances for non-medical reasons. Portsmouth became the pill mill capital of America. Even though doctors are the ones running the pill mills, I believe that pharmaceutical companies are the ones to blame. They are the reasons a problem like this occurs in the first place. Narcotics are …show more content…
Society knew it as a pill mill factory in which people could turn to for a cheap way to get a fix. By 1993, Dreamland was closed, and people began to stay in doors. They no longer came out together in town and shared a sense of a strong community. Once people began to use pills, socializing over a fire and having a beer slowly slipped away. As shops began to close, Procter began to utilize the cheap space and continue to run his pill mills. During this time, pill mills were the only self owned businesses in Portsmouth Ohio (207). Many drug dealers and users came to Portsmouth to stock up on pills (197). Over the years, Procter had brought in dozens and patients and higher new employees to help run and expand his clinics. The amount of employees brought into his practice increased in November 1998 when he was in a care accident. Procter claimed he had memory loss which caused him to be unable to remember patients history and practice medicine. Many of the doctors he began to higher had histories themselves with drug use, suspended licenses, or mental health issues