Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg says he’ll be attending an upcoming conference addressing the ongoing opioid epidemic throughout the country.

WELLINGTON, Fla. — For Gail Smith August 15, 2016 is a day that’s ingrained in her memory.

“It’s every parent’s worst nightmare,” she said.
That’s the day she found out her 21-year old son Kenny was dead. He was found inside a sober living home. He moved to Palm Beach County to seek help for his drug addiction.

Prosecutors in Florida on Tuesday announced 15 arrests related to drug abuse treatment that included individuals tied to a urine-testing lab used by Liberation Way in Pennsylvania.

A Palm Beach County drug testing lab and 10 South Florida treatment centers worked together to fraudulently bill more than $141 million in unwarranted urine testing of drug addicts, Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg said Tuesday.

Fifteen people are behind bars in a multi-state drug treatment fraud investigation.

Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg announced Tuesday the Sober Home Task Force busted open a massive multi-state kickback scheme between drug treatment centers and a local drug testing lab.