Doctors in five states charged with prescribing pain killers for cash, sex

I would be more interested in going after doctors that prescribe blood pressure medications without any attempt to find and cure the root cause of the high BP symptom. This affects far more people than doctors selling narcotics.

There are far more people dependent on BP drugs and the numbers are climbing every year. They are not expensive, but they are more dangerous than narcotics, in my not so humble opinion. Once dependent on them, you can't simply stop taking them. Doing so increases changes of stroke and heart attack (your body fights the effect of the drug, so you "rebound" even higher BP than when you started). Some BP drugs also introduce high variability in BP which can be just as dangerous as high BP by itself. Again, these bandage a symptom and your body is saying it wants the BP higher for a reason.

I have tried to get Kaiser Permenente, John Muir and Stanford doctors to step up. Instead, they just throw BP masking pills at me and send me on my way. At this point, my hope is to replace this function of doctors with groups like the SENS foundation (repair vs. mask). [1]

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/sens