are pain mills or fraudulent purposes, you ve got to obey federal law and not just ship it out no questions asked. they start impounding them. the pharma distributes do an end run around the dea and go to congress. i couldn t put it better. there are billions of opioids in circulation legally in this country. hundreds of millions of them spill out of legitimate supply chain and end up in the hands of users and dealers. when the dea cracked down on those wholesale distributors that big three that you mentioned, they got very unhappy. and they didn t like that law and they went to congress and got that law changed. i want to be clear. marino was a key, perhaps one of the most key figures in this. but there are very fwoou few good guise on capitol hill in this story. passed by a voice vote, signed by president obama. you ve got ex-obama officials like jamie gore lick, wilmer hale, at did you want of justice, who goes to be a lawyer for the drug distributors when
okay. and we are seeing the numbers in tennessee, 921 babies born, dependent on drugs this year. over 250 this year. what are you seeing there, why, and what do we need to be concerned about here, more specifically? it s a huge problem in our state, and starting to be a huge problem in other pockets of the country nationally. and part of the reason for that is the ready availability of these drugs, of opiates to average people. and part of that is due to overprescription of opiates, and part of that may be due to pain clinics and pain mills, things like that that prey on these populations of people. all right. again, dr. jessica young vanderbilt university. we appreciate you taking some time. we absolutely will follow up with you. this law again goes into effect
inside the cnn grill at south by southwest. the grill opens officially today this morning. one thing i noticed on the menu which includes all kinds of things, there are no prices. that s because we got usually that means i cannot afford to eat here. but that is what s happened here is we have taken over a restaurantnd put the cnn grill and invited people here as we celebrate south by southwest which is a big music and film festival. douglas brinkley, we ve known each other now through a lot of presidential races. a long time. no, i don t tell anybody how long we ve known each other. also, got alex axis, he s a co. founder of read it. joining us. we had him on a couple of weeks ago when we launched this show. ali velshi of course is our chief business correspondent. and we ve got some of the dishes this morning. i m going to go with the mac and cheese. gain five pounds when you watch this show. parse that one out. yeah. i can t keep working on that. let s get right t
dispensed. reporter: she made it her journey to get legislation shut down that would shut down the pain mills. the attorney general in ohio said, they are flying down from ohio to florida. help us. you have to stop this. reporter: a pill mill bill passed in the florida legislature, stops doctors from dispensing in clinics. it establishes a drug-monitoring database aimed at stopping doctor shopping. the majority of the 50 states have a database. on the federal level, a bill has been introduced that doubles from 10 to 20 years the prison sentence for anyone convicted of running a pill mill. it imposes a $3 million fine. on a side street in ft. lauderdale across in a pain clinic, people gather. many are mothers who meet once a month outside a different pain clinic. renee doyle is among them. the signs they hold up carry
items to his room. moammar gadhafi is ready for a cease-fire, parentally, according to the south african president trying to broker a truce. gadhafi is not promising to step down, which is the main demand of the rebels. sarah palin s one-nation bus tour is in gettysburg, finally. there are times when she sounds like a would-be presidential candidate. she still isn t ready to call her tour anything but a campaign for america s constitution. the tour started in washington wag. then, it continued on to pennsylvania. there was some confusion about where exactly her bus was headed at times. she refuses to tell the so-called mainstream media exactly where she is going. her co-worker, greta van susteren was invited on the bus. she said, despite how things look, her one nation tour is not political. it is not about me. it is not a publicity-seeking tour. it is about highlighting the great things about america and the media can figure out where we are going if they do their inve