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Brad Schimel: “There are doctors who have been writing prescriptions for…”

Featuring: Brad Schimel, Republican | Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge, Waukesha County

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On the Issues Brad Schimel, Attorney General of Wisconsin

Published | Video Starts at 43:41

This whole picture that I painted today, and I've been painting many times, they just weren't aware of it. We're working very hard to get that dose of reality to them. Now. There are doctors who have been writing prescriptions for profit, and a number of them have been prosecuted. There are all these unintended consequences. That's how Marinette county ran into such a huge heroin problem, because a doctor just across the border in Menominee, Michigan, was writing prescriptions for profit. (43:41–43:48)

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