Dr. Frederick Cohn worked for Procter before relocating to an abandoned supermarket in the town of Paintsville (pop. 3,400) in eastern Kentucky, where he saw as many as 146 patients a day, three minutes each, while lines formed outside. Cohn had preprinted prescriptions for various narcotics, including OxyContin, Lortab, Soma, and Xanax. He prescribed the same pills in the same amounts over and over throughout the day, no matter the patient’s complaint— 2.7 million pills in one year.
