Ernst: Florida is the nation's pill mill  Published: Wednesday,
March 2, 2011 at 12:20 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, March 2,
2011 at 12:20 p.m.  Prescription drugs are killing people. We
think we know how to stop a lot of it, and yet we're doing
little.  That pretty much sums up the situation in Florida,
where narcotics such as oxycodone and hydrocodone kill seven
people a day.  Supposedly, the drugs are controlled substances,
meaning government regulates their release into the general
population.  However, in Florida, the oversight is so loose that
druggies travel from other states to load up on the painkillers,
which are similar to morphine and heroin.  Here's an incredible
statistic. USA Today reports that in the first six months of
2010, Florida doctors stocked up on 10 times more oxycodone
pills than the health practitioners in all other 49 states
combined.  That amounted to 41.3 million pills for Florida. Next
came Ohio with 1 million.  Why here?  One reason is that 38
states have adopted monitoring p