Law enforcement groups at both state and national levels agree that crime related to prescription drug abuse is a serious problem. Despite this, very little attention and few resources are allocated to address the issue. According to a 1996 article in the Los Angeles Times, just 0.5% of all federal money spent on the war on drugs at that time went toward investigating and prosecuting prescription drug offenses. One example from the Los Angeles Times clearly illustrates the discrepancy that also exists in how perpetrators of prescription drug and illegal drug crimes are punished. Eric Tucker, a physician in California, pleaded guilty to issuing fraudulent prescriptions for the opioid drug Dilaudid, also known as "drugstore heroin." At the time of his arrest, the number of prescribed doses for Dilaudid that had come out of Tucker's office each year exceeded that of County USC Medical Center, the...