On the Money with Brian Banmiller - 1993-08-22
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[0:01] This edition of On the Money is brought
[0:02] to you by Sun River Lodge and Resort,
[0:04] the great Northwest resort.
[0:08] We go undercover to expose a part of the
[0:10] war on drugs you've never seen. The
[0:12] abuse of prescription medicines. It's a
[0:14] businesswoman's bane, a run in her
[0:16] stockings. Why can't they make nylons
[0:19] that won't run? He's hot and he's got
[0:21] the hits. We talked to baseball's
[0:23] highest paid superstar and find out what
[0:26] it's like to earn $43 million.
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[0:49] >> Hello, I'm Brian Ban Miller and this is
[0:51] our look at how you can make money and
[0:52] stop people from stealing it. Every
[0:55] year, billions of dollars in drugs are
[0:56] sold illegally in this country. But
[0:59] we're not talking about cocaine or
[1:00] marijuana. The problem is black market
[1:03] prescription drugs. It's a nationwide
[1:05] problem that few in the medical
[1:06] profession want to talk about.
[1:11] Drug dealers hitting crimeinfested
[1:13] streets pushing cocaine. Addicts
[1:15] freebasing crack. Junkies injecting
[1:18] heroin. It's a national crisis that's
[1:20] overwhelming drug enforcement agencies.
[1:23] But an equally disturbing epidemic rages
[1:25] unseen. a huge black market in
[1:28] prescription medication being diverted
[1:30] to drug abuse.
[1:31] >> I guess a given week I would gross maybe
[1:35] 15 20,000
[1:38] off of prescription drugs.
[1:40] >> This former drug dealer abused and sold
[1:42] pharmaceutical drugs for more than a
[1:44] decade before his arrest. Wounded in
[1:46] Vietnam, he became addicted to morphine
[1:49] doctors prescribed for pain. Back from
[1:51] the war, he maintained that euphoric
[1:54] high with street heroin. That is until
[1:56] he found a f