At a Fort Wayne pain clinic, Dr. Michael Cozzi wrote more opioid scripts than any doctor in the state, eventually leading the state to suspend his medical license. Seeing up to 120 patients per day, Cozzi wrote sixty-four thousand prescriptions for controlled substances in two years. Of those, almost three million dosage units were for oxycodone, the opioid and main ingredient in OxyContin. When patients didn’t have cash, Cozzi accepted guns as payment. In one month, he prescribed controlled substances for 1,700 patients.
