The 'Oxy Express': {rush's favorite dittoheads}

Florida's Drug Abuse Epidemic

Joe Raedle/Getty Images: A pharmacy manager counts out the correct number of pills to fill a prescription in Miami.

March 2, 2011 - Florida is the epicenter of a prescription drug abuse epidemic. Each day in communities from Jacksonville to Fort Lauderdale, thousands of doses of powerful narcotics like oxycodone are dispensed in pain clinics — storefront operations also called "pill mills."

When he started at the Broward County Sheriff's department 30 years ago, Al Lamberti says, the department was raiding crack houses and busting junkies.

"Nowadays, the drug dealers are working out of strip malls," he says. {continued w/audio report}