Two days after his third visit to a doctor in Miami, Drew Parkinson died from an overdose of narcotics ordered by the doctor.

Parkinson was 25, and five credits shy of a college degree. In 57 days, the doctor prescribed him 1,455 pills, without any medical evidence he needed them, according to state investigators.

Family members found him face down on a mattress in his apartment Easter Monday of 2002. Near his body sat three vials of pills from the doctor: the painkiller methadone, the sedative alprazolam (Xanax) and carisopradol (Soma), a muscle relaxant. These drugs killed him, an autopsy found.

More than two dozen times a week someone dies in Florida from abuse of prescription drugs, which have overtaken heroin and cocaine as killers. Some buy pills on a thriving street market, but many are drug abusers who hook up with a small number of doctors willing to hand out huge amounts of narcotics, our investigation found.

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