Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi spoke to a packed house Thursday morning. The topic: how they are working together to stop the "Pill Pipeline", the lucrative prescription drug trafficking ring, between Florida and Kentucky.

The pair spoke to a crowd at "The Different Faces of Substance Abuse",a workshop for professionals and partnering agencies that address all aspects of prescription drug abuse.
Both gave candid examples of how the pipeline is destroying communities.

"I've met with moms who have lost their daughters to drugs. I've seen first hand the devastation. Kentucky is now the third or fourth most medicated state in the country", Conway said.

Bondi added, " In Florida, 7 people overdose everyday. There are more pain clinics than McDonald's in the state. We've had realtors who say, now, people say they're looking for house but are actually going in stealing from medicine cabinets"

While admitting the terrible toil prescription drug use takes on the addicted, both also touted their states pushes to stop the cycle. Conway pointed to Kentucky's Prescription Pill Task Force and the Keep Kentucky Kids Safe Campaign. He says he's spoken to more than 7 thousand children about the perils of prescription drug use and to adults about prescription security and proper disposal methods.

Bondi says in Florida, the prescription pill monitoring program, prescription pill strike force, dispensing bans, and tougher criminal penalties are stopping criminal activity.

"We've put away 1,800 criminals, 31 of them doctors, and believe me, there's more to come", she says.

Both Bondi, a Republican, and Conway, a Democrat, pledged to continue to work together to stop the influx of prescription drugs into Kentucky. Conway called Bondi both a professional ally and a friend.

Bondi saying, "This is not a Republican or Democrat thing, it's a life thing".