'Operation Pill Nation' Arrests Doctor on Charges of Drug Peddling

A squad of state and federal investigators formed to shut down what they call Florida's "rogue pain clinics" served a federal grand jury indictment last week charging a Lake Worth, Fla., doctor with 55 counts of illegally distributing oxycodone and other controlled substances.U.S. Attorney Wilfredo A. Ferrer said in a news release that Dr. Cesar Deleon, 65, was arrested on Tuesday and accused of prescribing oxycodone, the generic version of the highly addictive opioid painkiller OxyContin, and other controlled substances not required to meet the medical needs of his patients and without co...