MONTICELLO, NY — Jeffrey Mulinelli, director of the Sullivan County Probation Department, told county legislators at a meeting at the government center on July 2, that there may be a “pill mill” operating in Sullivan County, providing prescriptions to parolees. Mulinelli said that people on probation had tested positive for substances such as Oxycodone and Vicodin but were able to produce prescriptions that entitled them to 200 or 300 such pills a month.

Mulinelli said his office contacted the Prescription Monitoring Program Registry, which has been in place since 2013 to allow doctors and pharmacists to see if patients are being prescribed too many controlled substances or pills from more than one doctor.