Heather Belleme, 23, successfully hid her oxycodone addiction from her family until it was too late. In March she entered a drugstore with a prescription and managed to obtain 168 oxycodone pills for the price of 700 dollars. Belleme died four days later after overdosing on her pills, leaving her family completely devastated.

Mark Trouville, currently in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Florida field office, strongly believes rogue pharmacies should be strictly monitored and held accountable for mishandling drugs, as many provide the public with unnecessary and deadly quantities of prescription medication in order to make money.

“When we talk about pharmacists that are doing the wrong thing, we're talking about a pattern of consistent abuse that is absolutely motivated by greed and not by the good" Trouville stated.

Rogue pharmacies are known to work with unscrupulous doctors in order to illegally distribute millions of pills to addicts and drug dealers, all while making large sums of money. The Drug Enforcement Administration plans to crack down on these pharmacies as well as identify physicians who aid in the illegal distribution of prescription drugs.

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