California Mom Fights "Dr. Feel-Good" Pill Mills

NBC

Joey Rovero of San Ramon, a California High School graduate, was just a few months from graduating Arizona State University in winter of 2009 when the 21-year-old took his last road trip. His mother, April, said Joey went with two college fraternity friends from Arizona to Orange County to visit a doctor notorious for easily giving out prescription drugs. Nine days later, Joey was dead. April Rovero said her son was a sweet and charismatic young man who was never known to take medicine or drugs, but the coroner found a cocktail of Oxycontin, Xanax and alcohol in Joey’s system.

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