Pill Mill

For 5 years, Christian Valdes was at the center of the biggest drug operation in America. It was an operation that became internationally notorious, insanely violent and nonstop freaky. It made its kingpins millions and millions of dollars, and it made Valdes as much money as he could possibly make in a day -- because there were endless numbers of people lining up for what he had the power to give them. Those people were willing to do just about anything to get it. With the men, that generally meant money. With the women, that meant money - and almost any kind of sexual arrangement Valdes proposed. And the interesting part about this operation? It was completely legal. From 2000 to 2009, Florida’s incredibly lax prescription drug laws fueled a huge spike in so-called pain management clinics, especially in the Fort Lauderdale-Miami area. CNN and other national news media outlets tagged these clinics as “Pill Mills” -- and with good reason. When Valdes managed them, they gave out heavy-hitter drugs like Xanax, Percocet, Oxycontin, Roxicodone and Methadone just like they were candy. And because the Sunshine State kept everybody in the dark about who was prescribing what, somebody could easily go into one clinic and get some Oxy and then head over to a different clinic for some more a few minutes later. Valdes helped a whole lot of people do just that – including a posse of strippers he sponsored - because he was running his own operation within the operation.Pill Mill is his no-holds-barred memoir of life in the center of the action as the whole pain clinic scam spiraled out of control. In this book, you’ll hear this full-blooded Cuban’s whole story – from the rough-and-tumble childhood and high school years that shaped him; to how he started dealing weed and eventually…