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    Feds announce largest-ever crackdown on opioid-related health care fraud

    Crackdown includes the arrest of 120 people, including doctors allegedly running pill mills and operators of fraudulent treatment centers.
    by David Armstrong Jul 13, 2017 2 minutes
    Attorney General Jeff Sessions (right), with Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, speaks about opioid addiction during a news conference Thursday in Washington.

    Federal law enforcement agencies announced Thursday what they called “the largest opioid-related fraud takedown in history” with the arrest of 120 people across the country, including doctors allegedly running pill mills and the operators of fraudulent treatment centers.

    “Too many trusted medical professionals like doctors, nurses, and pharmacists have chosen to violate their oaths and put

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