Police said counterfeit prescription pills are "impossible to distinguish" from the real pills and are flooding the country, often sold as Oxycodone, Adderall, Xanax or Percocet.
More than a dozen pharmacies in southern Indiana said this week they aren't accepting new prescriptions for oxycodone due to supply issues.
According to police, Ford, who has a long criminal history, was just released from prison in May.
They wanted to tell their story to prevent others from dying from fentanyl poisoning.
Each one faces up to 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $1 million if convicted.
A Frankfort, Ky. man was sentenced to 42 years in prison after being convicted by a federal jury of murder during a drug trafficking crime.
Police then obtained a search warrant for the room, finding more than a pound of marijuana, over $5,000 in cash, a .380 caliber handgun, around 90 Oxycodone pills and drug paraphernalia.
If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for each count.
If convicted, the dentist could face up to 20 years in prison.
The department said in a news release that confiscated more than 570 oxycodone pills, 200 Xanax pills, nearly 28 grams of heroin, 650 grams of marijuana, more than $5,000 and seven firearms, of which two were confirmed stolen.