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In this episode of American Greed, they're young, rich, and running wild.
We're just having fun. Here, you want some pills?
Here's some pills. You want to smoke some weed? Here's some weed, you know.
A group of Florida teens stumble into an unlikely career.
Drug lords.
They wanted them, and we had them, and they would pay whatever for them.
And what they lack in experience, they make up for in creativity.
We would slice the back of the teddy bear, stuff it with cash.
They were clever.
Stupid clever, but clever.
But the good times don't last long, as the feds infiltrate their drug ring.
I know we both want to make money, so the number one thing we've got to do is
keep flow going. They were getting reckless.
And when the hammer comes down, it's every man for himself.
I knew we were in some deep trouble.
And when they handed down the sentences, my bag to judge, it's almost as if you
just die.
You just cry.
That is why American Greed is here today, because it was American Greed.
It's the summer of 2009 in magnificent Tampa, Florida.
Lance Barabbas is throwing a rager.
The 21 -year -old invites dozens of friends to his luxury condo in the
upscale Channel District.
He said, I'm going to throw a party. It's going to be all exclusive.
Wild. A lot of women. A lot of friends.
The party has the ingredients to fuel a young man's wildest fantasy.
Girls in bikini, boo, and plenty of drugs.
Kegurators, Jägermeister machines, little butler trays with a pile of
cocaine on it.
He had bought like an ounce of cocaine.
There was pills and weed and it was crazy.
Later that evening, Lance has a special surprise for his party guests.
You know, he decides to pull out a backpack full of money and just starts
dumping it on the bed.
Party goers say that Lance dumps nearly $100 ,000 across the mattress.
At the time, he was dating a girl, and he had, you know, two of her girlfriends
were in their room, and, you know, they just started getting in their lingerie.
Just taking pictures.
Lance also owns a mini arsenal, AR -15, an AK -47, and a
variety of handguns.
The weapons spice up the girl's selfie.
These beautiful girls in their underwear with tens of thousands of dollars. They
can post it on Facebook for all I care, and it's hilarious.
The party is a celebration of Lance Barabbas' business success.
His startup company brings in tens of thousands of dollars each week.
They were on the verge of making millions.
They were making tens of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
They were making to kids infinite amounts of money.
But Lance's business plan is, of course, illegal.
For the past year, he and his friends have been dealing oxycodone pills.
In the late 2000s, it's a golden opportunity that Lance Barabbas and his
are all too happy to exploit.
Lance was abusing drugs. He was living like there was no tomorrow.
And that's kind of literally how it all went for him. There was no tomorrow.
Lance was just...
Waiting to get taken down.
The tale of aspiring drug lord Lance Barabbas and his unlikely drug ring
in Pasco County, Florida, in the small town of Hudson.
Though it's located just an hour north of Clearwater Beach, Hudson might as
be a world away from that famous coastline.
The last reason Hudson Beach was on the news is because there was a flesh
-eating virus in the water.
But it's kind of, I would say, a mixture between beachy, coastal, and
redneckish. If you weren't at the beach or down on the bow, you're at the mud
hole.
Landon Barabbas is the middle child of the three Barabbas siblings.
His baby brother Lance is two years younger.
Lance is always skinny and kind of the runt, so football wasn't, you know, his
thing. When he got into high school and got introduced to wrestling, that's
where he really excelled.
You know, Lance and I have a special bond because we've known each other and,
you know, we've been through a lot together.
Doug Dodd is good friends with Lance and knows the other Barabbas boys,
including the oldest brother, Larry, through the wrestling team.
Here they are in a high school team photo.
Another pal, Richard Sullivan, rounds out the tight -knit crew.
I met them at Hudson High in ninth grade.
We all wrestled together.
They're kind of just wisecracking privilege, I would say.
The Barabbas family is well -known in Hudson.
The boy's mother, Lisa, runs a homeless shelter called Holy Ground.
She actually raises her kids in the facility.
I thought raising them here was good.
I was giving them the Christian background. They always had to go to
Lance was always going to grow up and be a pastor.
He used to carry his little Bible and we all dressed up in a little suit.
It was unique. It was different.
Always stuff going on.
I got to learn a lot about people and, you know, all walks of life.
Despite appearances, the family is financially secure.
Lisa received a generous insurance settlement when her husband, the boy's
stepfather, He was tragically killed in a car accident in August 2000.
So my mom, she always provided for us. We always got to, you know, shop
for the clothes that we wanted.
They all had brand -new vehicles, Ford Lightnings, jacked -up Dodge Rams with,
you know, 36 -inch lifts on them and all that.
In contrast to the boys' relative comfort, in the late 2000s, many
the Hudson area are struggling.
Florida was ground zero of the prescription pain pill epidemic.
They were very abundant down here.
Roxycodone and oxycodone pills, roxies and oxies, flow freely in the state.
At the time, the pills are largely unregulated.
Doctors prescribed the painkillers for a variety of ailments.
These pill mills, these strip mall so -called medical centers, where you had
doctors who were seeing patients for 30 seconds, 45 seconds, and issuing
prescriptions. A guy walks in, doc, I'm in pain, here you go.
There was no other state like this. In Florida...
There was more pain management clinic than there was McDonald's, you know?
In Florida in 2008, 10 times more prescriptions were provided by doctors
pain medication than the rest of the country combined.
So how is that possible?
How can that be?
Doug Dodd says the pills are widely abused.
especially among teens looking for a quick and easy high.
Roxycodone was more of the drug of choice.
Roxy's was more so the quick, break it up, snort it, you're good, where Oxy's
had like a little coating on it. We liked it. And once we started
we were hooked.
He says the pills are common at parties.
Wild nights and fun times.
And one of their big trucks, and, you know, we'd have a keg on the back, and
we'd just have a pocket full of pills.
And that was the party.
In addition to fueling a good time, the pills provide a unique business
opportunity.
Dodd says a family friend hooks him up with a supplier.
He says he makes up to $5 ,000 a month selling the drug.
The money that I made from the pills was very motivating.
You know, I made more money and the flip of a finger than I made working 40
hours a week at a restaurant.
Landon Barabbas is in college when opioids are securing their grip on his
hometown.
He's a wrestler at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee.
He attends the school on a scholarship.
but is sidelined with a knee injury.
I ended up actually having three knee surgeries, and through the course of
accompanied with what was going on back home, is when I started getting into
pain pills, mainly the Roxy's.
Over Christmas break in 2007,
Landon is back home in Florida visiting his friends and family.
One day, while kicking back with his buds,
Inspiration strikes.
There was conversations amongst us between me, Lance, and his brother
One thing led to another, and we started talking about it.
While OxyPills are abundant in Florida, they're less common in Tennessee, where
Landon goes to school.
The market was there.
Supply and demand.
Roxys are generally 30 milligrams.
In Florida, Dodd says the pills are priced around $8 to $10 when bought in
Up in Tennessee, they're going for, you know, $15 to $20 to $25. If you buy a
bunch of them, they're going for $30 per single for one pill.
Oxy80s are even more valuable.
The 80 -milligram pills can be had for $20 in the Sunshine State.
If you go to Tennessee...
paying up to $80 for one single pill.
The boys seek to capitalize on the market inefficiency.
We ended up sending some back up there with Landon, and from that day on, it
just spread like a wildfire.
It's the whole basis of American capitalism.
The kids saw a good trade.
Next on American Greed.
The budding businessmen get creative to keep up with demand.
So they had these teddy bears. It was working. It was pretty seamless,
There's kind of like there's an American genius for these things, right?
In early 2008, brothers Lance and Landon Barabbas, Doug Dodd, and their friend
Richard Sullivan embark upon their new business opportunity.
The boys are going to be drug distributors, shipping OxyPills from
Tennessee. The drugs are extremely popular and profitable in the volunteer
state.
Tennessee with the cash cow, yep.
That's it.
They wanted them, and we had them, and they would pay whatever for them.
At Cumberland University, Landon Barabbas is friends with a wrestling
named Justin Knox.
Not only were we around the same weight class, but he kind of, how would you say
it, had like the same personality as me.
Justin Knox is from the city of Knoxville.
Doug Dodd says Knox becomes the crew's point man in Tennessee.
He was the main distributor up there. So Landon would keep a certain amount of
the pills and then, you know, they would go to Justin or Justin would pass them
on to his guy and they just got divided up.
There was just always an abundance of pills, you know, just a lot, a lot of
pills.
But before there's profit to be made, the guys need to figure out a way to
safely transport the pills.
Hiring a driver to make the 600 -mile trip is the first option.
They had it all figured out. He'd bring a girl with him most of the time and
drive a not very suspicious vehicle. He'd drive down, bring the money.
We'd give him the stuff. He'd stay overnight, leave the next day.
But the trip is perilous.
Just one traffic stop and the Enterprise is in jeopardy.
The problem with it is they needed more and more.
Things needed to happen fast, and they needed more.
To limit their exposure and keep up with demand, the crew devises an alternate
plan.
One day, while perusing the aisles at a pharmacy, they make a surprising
discovery.
We were at the vitamin section, and Lance, thinking in his head, vitamin C
the same size as the Roxy 30.
Vitamin B12 is the same size as...
He oxiates.
The vitamin bottles are the perfect disguise.
So he buys, you know, four or five bottles of the vitamin C, four or five
bottles of the other vitamin.
We get back to the apartment, and he dumps them out. And then we would fill
bottles with oxys and roxys, and then we would glue the seal back on, put the
cap back on, screw it, and then put them into a care package.
Care packages are mailed to Tennessee a few times each week.
And we go to our local UPS or FedEx one way overnight it, and it gets there the
next day.
Each shipment is worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Well, if they were off the 80s, it was a $60 ,000 package.
Each package was different. They could have a couple thousand pills in there.
They could have...
Two or three hundred pills in it.
The Roxy 30s, they're the littlest, so, you know, you could spend a thousand,
two thousand of those easily.
So you're talking 36 down.
To move that much cash back to Florida, the boys once again get creative.
Proffits were shipped back in teddy bears.
They'd slice the back of the teddy bear, stuff it with cash, and then mail the
teddy bears back, majority of the time.
I remember one time FedEx rings the bell and Lance gets a package and it's a
brown teddy bear and we unzip the back and stuff full of hundreds and fifties
about $50 ,000, $60 ,000 cash dumped in this teddy bear.
To keep up with demand, the Florida crew is tasked with increasing the supply of
pills. We just started reaching out to other people and networking and...
I had one guy that actually turned me on to the whole doctor shopping process.
He was going to five different doctors, and I started getting all of his
prescriptions.
We would pay for them to go to the doctors, fill all their prescriptions,
return, they would sell us their pills at an extremely low cost.
But one of the best ways to get pills is with your own prescription.
Through the junkie grapevine, the guys learn how to fake a back injury.
Then we knew a couple guys that told us about putting pressure on your spine
when you lay in the MRI.
When the MRI came back, they said that I had a bulging disc in my back, and
that's all we needed.
Basically, and all the doctor needed was a sufficient MRI.
to cover his own ass in order to write those prescriptions for you.
According to their medical files, this group of chiseled wrestlers might as
be Florida retirees.
So when I first walked in there, 18 years old at 125 pounds, and I walk out
there with 240 Roxycodones.
It was like a golden ticket.
I went back to my doctors the next month and walked out of there with like 500
pills. So within the 30 -day period, I got like 700 pills.
It was absolutely mind -blowing.
Next on American Greed, big profit equals big fun.
I'm making more money than some CEOs of companies.
It's just like...
A fantasy land.
Despite their secret lives as aspiring drug lords, Doug Dodd, the Barabbas
brothers, and their friends appear to be typical college students.
Doug keeps a regular class load at a local community college.
I didn't plan on it being long -term. My goal was, you know, get in, get out.
I was still going to school and trying to maintain somewhat of a normal life.
But unlike most college students, these guys are flush with cash.
I would say anywhere from $50 ,000, $60 ,000 a month each.
It was a lot of money.
Just what does a college student do with that much money?
Exactly what you'd expect.
To be honest, just dumb stuff.
A party every night.
Every night, you know.
We went to all the UFC fights that were around. We went to football games,
hockey games, baseball games.
You know, we all had four -wheelers and dirt bikes and boats and jet skis and
new trucks.
We went to the Super Bowl in 09.
We had front -line seats.
We paid all -exclusive pass, you know, walked the field, met the players.
Doug Dodd says he tries to maintain a modest lifestyle. He keeps a relatively
low profile and lives with his grandmother.
My goal was, at first it was to save, you know, $100 ,000, and then it was to
save, you know, $250 ,000.
This was basically, it was seed capital for a better life. You know, it was
saving to buy a house, saving to start a business.
Lance Barabbas is more ambitious.
Lance was going to live large.
Lance was Scarface. He's the guy in the group that has no boundaries.
Lance's nickname is The Little General.
His friends say he lives up to the title and is considered the crew's leader.
Lance is a type A personality, very outspoken,
speechless on his mind.
Loud, can be crazy, obnoxious.
He's the guy that stirs the drink, you know, he's the guy that makes things go.
Lance takes full advantage of his financial windfall. One of his first big
purchases is the truck of his dreams, a tricked -out red Ford Lightning.
We walk into the dealership, so we go inside, do our paperwork, and he's like,
all right, how are you going to be paying it? He's like, cash.
I think like $25 ,000 in cash.
rubber bands wrapped around each individual $1 ,000, and pulled it out of
little Louis Vuitton bag and slapped it on the table, and we began counting it
out.
The guy's like, you know, what are you, some kind of male exotic dancer?
And he's like, something like that.
Lance rents a half -million -dollar condo in Tampa's Channelside district.
It was just like a little pad, sexy, got money.
It was just right below the coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. There was other
professional football players that lived there.
The guys are regulars on Tampa's nightlife scene.
They say Lance leads the way.
We'd party all night, bring everybody to VIP.
He'd spent thousands of dollars on a bar tab, paid for anybody to come up there.
He went out religiously every single night, you know, whether it's at a bar
strip club.
He would spend the money faster than he'd make it.
But Dodd says Lance is getting out of control.
He's worried that his friend is bringing unneeded attention to their business
affairs.
He would invite people over when he got his money counter out and he's counting
$40 ,000.
Doug would get furious with Lance because he'd say, are you an idiot?
this. And Lance would say, dude, we're not going to get caught.
And the way we're not going to get caught is because we're too smart.
Next on American Greed, the burgeoning drug empire suffers its first setback.
He got caught on college campus red -handed with pills.
Throughout 2008, the boys' business grows at a rapid pace.
Operations expand to other dates.
Tennessee, Alaska, New York. We had a guy that would go to Carolina.
In Alaska, they went up to $100 for one pill.
But in December 2008, the first crack appears in the enterprise.
While at college in Tennessee, Landon Barabbas is busted with a care package.
I go over to the mail room and I pick a package. I walk outside, get in my truck
and... The local narcotics officers are there.
Landon is arrested and charged with possession.
The next day, he's kicked out of school.
He says Lance is unnerved by his arrest and helps pay the $15 ,000 to bond him
out. As soon as I got arrested, Lance, he shut everything down.
But it only lasted like a few weeks, maybe.
And he went right back to mailing packages.
In addition to his legal woes, Landon has another problem.
He's addicted to the pills.
He goes to rehab, but it doesn't stick.
I was there 21 days, but I think like after the fifth day, I had
some pills brought to me, snuck in.
So I wasn't ready to stop.
The little general eventually boots Landon from the family business.
Lance says, I'm cutting you off. You're no longer having to deal with anything.
He started saying that I'm too messed up, partying too hard, calling me a
junkie and stuff like that. You need to get help.
With Landon out of the picture, friends say Lance turns to his oldest brother to
pick up the slack.
And that's when Larry.
I actually got involved because Landon and Lance separated.
Larry basically became Lance's personal chauffeur, and they were hanging out
every day, driving him around, doing whatever errands Lance needed to do.
In June 2009, the crew suffers another setback when Justin Knox, their main
distributor in Tennessee, encounters his own problems.
Knox lives in a high -rise apartment in downtown Knoxville, but his neighbors
are annoyed by his constant activities.
A neighbor called the police and said that there was a strong odor of
coming from his apartment.
I think this was a recurring problem.
So the Knoxville Police Department drug unit went down there to investigate it.
Michael Gettings is one of the officers on the scene.
When we knocked on the door, Mr. Knox appeared to be under the influence of
marijuana at the time.
The officers get a warrant to search the apartment.
They hit the jackpot.
They found MDMA and marijuana, steroids, Oxycontin, money,
guns, a money counting machine. They knew they were onto something pretty
And then we also found what we believe to be a drug ledger with...
the prices that individuals had owed to Mr. Knox for the bills that he had sold
to them.
Justin Knox is arrested, but once again, Lance isn't concerned.
Lance is like, don't worry about it.
Everything's okay. I'm flying up there tomorrow.
We're going to have it taken care of.
But they did have something to worry about.
Justin Knox is facing multiple felony charges and agrees to cooperate with
authorities.
He strikes a plea deal, and the charges against him are eventually dropped.
The Barabbases say Knox informs them that his buddy, Dustin Wallace, a .k .a.
-Boy, will now be their main contact in Tennessee.
Business was still the same, but he was to deal with D -Boy directly, and D -Boy
would figure out the shipments, where they go, and things like that.
Unbeknownst to Lance, DEA agents are watching D -Boy's every move.
Agents say Dustin Wallace makes most of his drug deals at a shopping mall on
Knoxville's west side.
We could see Dustin Wallace's apartment from the roof of the parking garage at
the mall.
And we could watch Dustin drive over to the mall and meet with Picard.
Authorities place a wiretap on Wallace's phone.
They quickly learn where the pills are coming from. You're hearing a whole lot
of a few people. You know, I listen to Lance Brabus a lot.
Next on American Greed.
I'm going to have something off you tomorrow.
Guarantee if you have a Tuesday, whatever it is, it'll be like minimum.
Minimum, you know, like 200 pills, 100 and something of each. You know what I
mean? Minimum, yeah.
In the summer of 2009, federal authorities in Tennessee are closing in
drug ring.
Phone taps provide a wealth of information.
Most of the good evidence was when you would hear Lance talking to people like
Dustin Wallace and coaching him through how he needs to sell the pills and move
them quickly in order to make profits.
I know we both want to make money.
You make money when you get your hand, and I make money when I give you.
The number one thing we've got to do is just keep the flow going, you know what
I mean? Like, keep going.
He was constantly on him to move product and get money collected and get that
money back.
If I stop your denim, you know what I mean? We've got to do everything and all
means to try to keep it going as best we can.
Agents tracked the group's shipments from Florida to Tennessee.
On one afternoon, they witnessed Dustin Wallace personally pick up a package of
pills. Dustin Wallace was coming to the FedEx location in Knoxville to pick up a
package. And I actually stood in the back and watched and videoed through a
window as he came to the counter to get his package.
After several months of surveillance, federal authorities acquired enough
evidence of the crew's criminal activities.
I can feel it.
I could feel it closing in.
On October 20, 2009, the United States government indicts 14 members of what is
called the Barabbas Criminal Enterprise.
The crew is charged with conspiracy to distribute oxycodone.
Doug Dodd, Richard Sullivan, Dustin Wallace, and all three Barabbas brothers
also charged with money laundering.
The feds say the group moves, at a minimum, $1 .2 million in drugs.
This one is unique. It was almost like we caught it in its infancy.
You know, in one sense, if they were really business people instead of kids,
this thing could have been huge.
Arrests soon follow.
Doug Dodd is asleep at his grandmother's house when DEA agents arrive.
They came and got me at like 5 .30 in the morning, and I wake up to boom,
boom, my doorbell.
I wake up to my dog going crazy.
Lance Barapas is a student at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
He's pledging a fraternity when he's greeted by Special Agent Poston.
He had an all -night retreat, and they had just ended at like 4 .30, 5 o 'clock
in the morning.
I think he'd been being hazed all night and was exhausted.
And when he walked out of the fraternity house, we put him on the ground and
arrested him.
Of course that's how he gets arrested, because you have to do things Scarface
style, even if it's teenager, the teen version of it.
Landon Barabbas is arrested at his mother's homeless shelter.
And all of a sudden there's just a few vehicles pull in, you know, unmarked.
And of course at that point I was kind of shocked.
Then they tell her both of your other sons have been arrested this morning as
well. And she was freaking out, crying and hysterically.
Rather than go to trial, 13 of the 14 defendants take guilty pleas.
Doug Dodd anxiously awaits his fate.
Yeah, I just had a million thoughts going on in my head. You know, I was a
nervous wreck.
He's sentenced to six and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to
conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
All three Barabbas brothers, Richard Sullivan and Dustin Wallace, plead
to the same charges.
Before her sons are sentenced, Lisa Barabbas Henry says the judge personally
addresses her in the courtroom.
He said, I have never, ever had a mother come before me and all her children
being sentenced at one time. The same crime.
I just cried.
I cried, had a seat, and waited for the sentence.
There's nothing else to do.
There's no one to scream at. There's no one to blame.
Larry Barabas gets seven years.
Landon gets six years.
As part of his plea deal, authorities dropped the earlier possession charges
against Landon.
Baby brother Lance Barapas gets the biggest sentence of them all, 15 years,
as they say in court, 180 months.
Lance thinks it's funny. He said, Mom, it was such a pause when you guys sent
down my sentence.
Like five minutes later, you all start crying.
I think we had to make a joke because...
When you think a hundred and some odd months into years.
Next on American Greed, the little general speaks.
Lance Barapas reflects on his life as a drug kingpin.
It was just so easy that that's the reason why I guess I dug myself into a
bigger hole because it's like, okay, this isn't supposed to be this easy.
After two years of wild adventures, the members of the Barabbas Criminal
Enterprise now find themselves behind bars.
They say the experience is sobering.
I mean, it was a big, I would say, maturing process in the sense
you have a lot of time to learn who you truly are.
I will say that, you know, my 80 -month sentence, I feel, was, you know, I don't
want to say fair, but I feel like it was just, in a sense.
I mean, yeah, I was wrong, you know, I made a mistake, but, yeah, I didn't
really classify myself as being, you know, one of those hardcore criminals.
All the fun times and the parties and the money and the things that we were
to do and buy.
None of it was worth it.
Doug Dodd says he tries to make the most of his incarceration.
I went in guns blazing on any educational material I could get. I got
certification in keyboard and business communication.
I learned a second language, Spanish.
I took several public speaking classes, real estate classes, business investing
classes.
He eventually puts pen to paper and documents his life as a teenage drug
The idea came to me to write a book when I continuously seen the prescription
pain pill epidemic and newspaper after newspaper and magazine after magazine.
Dodd says he realizes his crew is just one piece of the nation's opioid
It just blew my mind.
The interaction we had with the doctors and the interaction we had with the
pharmacists, it just pissed me off, and I needed an outlet.
He reaches out to journalist Guy Lawson, who is intrigued by his tale.
One of the things I'm always looking for is a new prism to understand events,
and Doug provided that. I learned a lot about oxycodone, a lot about big pharma.
In April 2015, Lawson's story runs in Rolling Stone magazine.
They were like sort of the redneck reflection of something that was deeply
in America and that was, to this day, plagues the country.
In the years since, it's become evident that the problem is much, much, much,
much bigger than a bunch of kids on a wrestling team making some money.
The story strikes a chord with readers.
Within two weeks of the article being published, we had a film deal.
And we had Ansel Elgort that reached out, and he's one of the biggest names
Hollywood.
Doug Dodd is released from prison in August 2015.
In 2017, his own book, Generation Oxy, is published.
While he waits for his story to hit the silver screen, he spends his days
speaking to patients at drug treatment centers.
If you love yourself, you're not going to put toxic things in your body.
I feel like I have a story, and I want to share it. I feel like I have a unique
opportunity.
But I think he's still young, he's got a lot of ambition, and he wants some good
to come out of this.
As for the Barabbas brothers, Landon and Larry are also out of prison and trying
to make lives for themselves on the right side of the law.
Landon is now a small business owner with a family, but his felony drug past
never far behind him.
Addiction is a struggle, a daily struggle, something that I have to
internally and deal with.
Meanwhile, Lance Barabbas is the only member of the criminal enterprise who
remains behind bars.
He's scheduled to get out in 2022.
In an exclusive interview with American Greed, Barabbas talks about his
reputation as a teenage drug lord.
He says the easy money was intoxicating.
His
addiction
to the pills is another factor.
into a lifestyle that eventually got me 15 years in prison.
With plenty of time to reflect, Barabas says he regrets his actions.
100 % guilt. 100 % guilt on my part for everything.
My actions made it grow to what it was because I was just so hard -headed and
persistent on just doing it my way and get it bigger and do more, do more, do
more.
They put their heads together and decided on a way to make money, and they
it was illegal.
They were all knowing participants in this conspiracy.
There was no accident to how they got put in jail. They conspired to do this.
Doug Dodd doesn't dispute this, but provides a warning.
If Americans didn't have such a craving for opioids, their business would never
have made so much money.
I think it was bound to happen, and if it wasn't us... If it wasn't me and my
friends, it would have been another group of individuals that got addicted
the medication, the drug, and began selling it. Because at the end of the
if you want to get high, you're going to get high.
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