Many of those then went from South Florida “pill mills” to Appalachia and the Midwest, where they fueled opioid scourges in those areas. All but one sold for less than $50,000, some right after the real estate crash.ĭEA records show that 5.6 billion prescription painkillers came to Florida between 20. Six are condos and two are single-family homes.

Dispensing Physician Consultant/Ira’s Discount Pharmacy (Photo by Randy Schultz)Īccording to the appraiser’s website, Prokopios Panagakos owns eight Palm Beach County properties in addition to the home in Boca Raton. The mailing address for Panagakos is a Boca Raton home, for which the mailing address on the property appraiser’s website is a home in Pompano Beach. Who runs the store day-to-day? “Koko.” Is that a first name or last name? “Just Koko.” Records list Prokopios Panagakos as an officer and registered agent of Dispensing Physician Consultant. State records list a mailing address for George Drogaris on Staten Island. When would he be there? “He’s “in and out.” Where does he live? “New York.” Where in New York? No answer. I asked to speak with Drogaris and was told that he wasn’t in the store. Records list George Drogaris as the owner of Dispensing Physician Consultant. Aside from that, no one wanted to say much. An employee, however, confirmed that the name is and has been Dispensing Physician Consultant. The window of the pharmacy on Linton Boulevard advertises the store as Ira’s Discount Pharmacy. The woman who answered the phone said Dildine had left to pick up his child from school. I called in the early afternoon and was told that he was making compounds, but that I could try later. “We’re short-staffed,” said another employee.ĭildine said I could try later. I went to Delray Shores Pharmacy on Wednesday morning, hoping to speak with pharmacist/owner T.J. Delray Shores Pharmacy (Photo by Randy Schultz) Apex Pharmacy, west of Delray Beach on Atlantic Avenue, received 3.6 million. Linton Square Pharmacy, on South Congress Avenue, ranked ninth in the county, receiving 4.1 million pills. Those two Delray Beach pharmacies received more pills than any store in Miami-Dade County.Ī wide look at the database shows how Delray Beach, a city of roughly 60,000 a decade-plus ago, became nearly overwhelmed by addiction to legal but overprescribed drugs. For comparison, however, the fifth-ranked pharmacy in the county, in West Palm Beach, received slightly fewer than 5 million pills. Dispensing Physicians Consultant, on Linton Boulevard just east of Military Trail, received 8,164,780 pills.Ī Palm Springs pharmacy was just behind Dispensing Physicians Consultant.

The store is downtown, about a block north of East Atlantic Avenue. The paper describes the database as “a virtual road map” of the opioid epidemic that ravaged many Florida communities, especially Delray Beach.Īccording to the website, Delray Shores Pharmacy received 8,815,330 painkillers during that period. It became public as the result of civil lawsuits against makers, distributors and retailers of the pills.

Last week, the Washington Post published the Drug Enforcement Administration’s database of pain pill distribution from 2006 until 2012. During the height of the opioid crisis, two pharmacies in Delray Beach received more prescription pain pills than any others in Palm Beach County-17 million combined.

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