Undercover video shows how prescription drugs in Florida are adulterated, misbranded in black market

Video taken by an undercover government informant shows a woman, her son and husband wiping labels off prescription medication bottles in a South Florida apartment.

They remove the labels and reattach the information packet to the bottles that contain expensive medication including HIV meds that patients chose to sell.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General drug diversion is just one of the ways criminals steal billions of dollars from Medicare each year and unfortunately, South Florida is the epicenter of Medicare fraud.

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