Local leaders met on Tuesday to come up with a solution on how to battle Central Florida's illegal pain pill problem. Florida is number one in the country for illegal pain pill clinics and Orange County is fighting back.

Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs met with county leaders on Tuesday about how to control pain clinics. Jacobs wants the task force to come up with a strict plan to regulate so-called "pill mills" after the moratorium on them runs out at the end of the year.

Legal, health, and public safety experts are taking on Orange County's prescription drug problem by joining Jacobs' 18-member task force.

"FDLE already has a task force. How is this going to be different from all the other task forces?" asked WFTV reporter Tim Barber.

"Well this one is centrally located," said Jacobs.

"Other task forces may spring up around the state, but none are as in the cross hairs as much as Central Florida," said Rich Crotty, former Orange County mayor.

In Orange County alone, there are more than 60 registered pain management clinics.

"We have to go in as if we are patients and other things and monitor it, we have to squeeze the people who are knowingly going in and getting illegal prescriptions," said Chief Jerry Demings, of the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

Instead of just going after pill mills, the task force will also be educating the public on the dangers of prescription drugs and treating addicts.

"The very, very sad thing about this problem in Central Florida is that we have many more addicts than we did before," said Jacobs.

The team will also study what other states have done to combat the issue because Florida distributes more oxycodone pills than the other of the 49 states combined. That helps make prescription drugs the number one killer of middle-aged Floridians.

"When this moratorium expires that we have all the measures and procedures in place to safeguard a resurgence of these pill mills," said Jacobs.

The task force will meet two more times. Once on Aug. 8 and again on Sept. 19.