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| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Farmville pharmacy and pharmacist-in-charge ordered to pay $600,000 and permanently barred from dispensing controlled substances
2020-02-03
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North Carolina | Independent pharmacy in Farmville | Oxycodone, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, methadone and potentiators such as diazepam, alprazolam and zolpidem | not stated | Pharmacy owner and pharmacist-in-charge | not stated | none documented | source |
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Nurse practitioner forged physicians' signatures to issue unauthorized controlled-substance prescriptions at two Montgomery pill-mill practices
2019-06
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Alabama Montgomery, AL |
Family Practice and Mercy Family Health Care, Montgomery medical practices | fentanyl, hydrocodone, oxycodone, alprazolam, and methadone | Convicted at trial of issuing unnecessary and illegitimate prescriptions for controlled substances and, because she lacked authority as a nurse practitioner to refill Schedule II prescriptions without physician approval, forging physicians' signatures on those prescriptions; the unnecessary office visits and unlawful prescriptions were billed to insurers. Conduct spanned 2013 through 2016, initially at a Montgomery medical practice and later at a second practice she opened. | not stated | Convicted by federal jury on 17 counts of unlawful distribution of controlled substances, one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, four counts of health care fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud; sentenced to 10 years and received enhancements for obstructing justice and abuse of trust. | none documented | source |
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Pain clinic physician indicted for prescribing fentanyl, oxycodone and other controlled substances without patient examinations
2018-06
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Ohio Hamilton, OH |
Cincinnati Centers for Pain Relief | fentanyl, oxycodone, methadone, morphine | Charged by indictment with unlawful distribution of controlled substances: allegedly prescribing fentanyl, oxycodone, methadone, morphine and other controlled substances on many occasions without patients actually being seen by the physician, and billing Medicare, Medicaid and the Bureau of Workers' Compensation for medically unnecessary prescriptions; also alleged to have received payments from a pharmaceutical company for sham speaking engagements about a fentanyl spray. | not stated | Federal grand jury indictment: 88 counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance, one count of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance with death resulting, eight counts of health care fraud and 17 counts of violating the anti-kickback law. Charges only; no finding or plea reported. | none documented | source |
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Casper physician suspended over alleged excessive painkiller prescriptions and oxycodone conspiracy
2016-12
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Wyoming Casper, WY |
Casper, WY | oxycodone, methadone, fentanyl, hydrocodone, phentermine, hydromorphone, tramadol, testosterone cypionate | The board found the physician prescribed high amounts of oxycodone, methadone, and fentanyl to one patient and may have conspired to acquire a scheduled drug by deception for use by someone other than that patient; prescribed controlled substances to a patient with whom he was in a relationship and may have obtained them by fraud; and increased and decreased oxycodone doses for another patient, which the board said could be careless disregard or conspiracy to acquire a narcotic by fraud. | not stated | Wyoming Board of Medicine summarily suspended the physician's license until a formal complaint and hearing; the physician was arrested and charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. | none documented | source |
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Maryland Physician Sentenced in Opioid Diversion Case (2014)
2014
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Maryland Maryland |
Physician (Maryland) | Fentanyl, oxycodone, morphine, hydrocodone, methadone | Charge as worded in the source: conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, hydrocodone, oxycodone, morphine and methadone | not stated | Sentenced (2014) to 12 months in prison | none documented | source |
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Psychiatrist found to have unlawfully possessed controlled substances taken back from patients and kept no required records
2013-09
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New Mexico Albuquerque, NM |
private psychiatric practice | controlled substances including fentanyl patches, oxycodone, OxyContin, methadone, Suboxone, hydrocodone, benzodiazepines, and Lyrica samples | Took back and retained already-dispensed controlled substances directly from patients outside the CSA's closed distribution system, and failed to maintain any inventory or records of the controlled substances he received or the drug samples kept in his office; a separate allegation that he redistributed these drugs to other patients was investigated but found unproven. | not stated | DEA registration renewal granted subject to a six-month suspension and restriction to non-narcotic controlled substances only; DATA-Waiver authority to prescribe Suboxone/Subutex revoked. | none documented | source |
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Psychiatric Hospital Settles Unregistered Methadone Clinic Allegations — Massachusetts, 2011
2011-09-27
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Massachusetts Georgetown, Massachusetts |
Baldpate Hospital, a private psychiatric hospital in Georgetown, MA | Methadone | Operated an unregistered narcotic treatment clinic; failed to maintain required methadone records/inventories | not stated | Civil settlement with DEA/U.S. Attorney's Office | $29,500 (civil settlement) | source |
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