The uncoiling saga of the Murdaugh family throws a spotlight on South Carolina's rampant black market for prescription opioids and how officials have struggled to contain the booming drug crisis during the pandemic.
Magistrate Judge Tonja Alexander ordered Murdaugh to surrender his passport but permitted him to return to a drug rehabilitation center out of state."He's not a man of significant means anymore."According to his attorneys, Murdaugh told South Carolina Law Enforcement Division agents that his"primary" opioid supplier was Curtis Edward Smith, a former client now accused of aiding him in the botched effort to stage his own deathover Labor Day weekend.
Murdaugh's attorneys have said their client suffers from an oxycodone addiction and was attempting to get off drugs when he started thinking about suicide. It's unclear how his drug dependence began, and a lawyer for Murdaugh did not respond to questions about whether he previously sought treatment for his addiction or whether his family and his colleagues knew the extent of it.
And if a drug dealer knows their client is a person of means who wants to remain discreet, there's no telling what their addiction may cost."This isn't an industry known for its highest level of ethics," said Andrews, who is studying the treatment of opioid use disorder for Medicaid recipients.South Carolina has been awash in opioids to devastating effect.
South Carolina ranked fourth among states for the highest increase in fatal overdoses last year, behind Vermont, West Virginia and Kentucky.
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