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Florida has the worst prescription drug problem in the country. All the accused dealers arrested on Thursday were from Brevard County, but they were allegedly getting their drugs from pain management clinics in Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties.

Officers arrested 20 accused dealers. Police said the suspects were coached on where to go and what to tell the doctor, such as having a pain in their back, all to get more pills to put on the streets.

With more pill mills in Florida than McDonalds, a team of federal, state and local police agents raided more than a dozen homes across Brevard County, rounding up 20 people who police said were part of the largest prescription drug ring caught to date on the east coast of Florida.

State Attorney General Pam Bondi touted the success of the six-month-long operation.

"We're sick of being the epicenter for prescription drug abuse," Bondi said.

Police said it was all run by Michael Dennis, who recruited his neighbors and two dozen other people to visit pain clinics across Central Florida to get prescriptions filled and then sell their pills to him so he could sell them on the street.

Police Chief Tony Bollinger said more young adults are now dying from drug overdoses in the state, from pills bought with a doctor's prescription, than car accidents

"They are often prescribing death to people," Bollinger said.

Still, no doctors or pharmacists were busted in the sting. The chief said the case was still open.

The operation was large. In one month, the ring accumulated more than 3,600 doses of oxycodone, which were resold on the streets. Brevard County Sheriff Jack Parker said the pills are worse than street drugs.

"They are synthetic heroin," Parker said.

But Yolanda Riley of Rockledge didn't seem too concerned with her arrest. Riley said she expected to be out of jail in no time.

"I will be going home," a shackled Riley told WFTV as she was loaded into a sheriff's office van.

A single pill can sell for $14 or more on the streets. Everyone arrested faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 25 years in prison.