CORAL SPRINGS DOCTOR ARRESTED

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla., April 1 (UPI) - Officers from the Drug
Enforcement Administration arrested a Coral Springs doctor Thursday
morning on federal charges of dispensing dangerous and addictive drugs.

Barbara Mazzella is accused of giving patients a quick exam and
writing prescriptions for highly addictive drugs that taken in
combination with other drugs can cause death.

DEA agents called Mazzella, ``A drug dealer with a fancy degree'' and
feel she could have been responsible for as many as 30 deaths.

Suspicions about Mazzella were raised when many pharmacys in Broward
and Palm Beach Counties would not fill her prescriptions for patients,
forcing her to open her own pharmacy for patients next door to her
offices.