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| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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New York Psychiatrist Pleads Guilty to Diverting Medication Using Patient's Children's Identities
2020-09-17
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New York Clifton Park, New York |
Psychiatrist, private practice (Clifton Park, NY) | Methylphenidate (Ritalin); ketamine (separate civil matter) | Arranged for a patient to kick back part of his own methylphenidate prescriptions, then used the patient's children's identities to obtain additional prescriptions for himself | not stated | Pleaded guilty Sept. 17, 2020 to unlawful drug distribution and misuse of personal information; surrendered his medical license; also settled a related civil ketamine-recordkeeping claim for $43,225.24 | $43,225 (civil penalty) | source |
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Rawlins physician charged with prescribing oxycodone and other controlled substances outside legitimate medical practice
2020-02
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Wyoming Rawlins, WY |
Practice | oxycodone, alprazolam, tramadol, promethazine with codeine, amphetamine/dextroamphetamine, hydrocodone | Charged in a 32-count federal indictment with dispensing controlled substances from 2014 to 2017 often without a legitimate medical purpose and outside the usual course of professional practice, including to persons under 21 and to pregnant women under 21; the state medical board found in 2017 that the physician was inappropriately prescribing controlled substances for other than legitimate purposes, prescribing to known abusers, and offering drugs in exchange for sex. | not stated | Federal criminal charges (32 counts) with a guilty plea scheduled; 2017 license suspension; voluntary relinquishment of license accepted August 2018. | none documented | source |
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South Burlington physician pleaded guilty to prescription fraud after writing prescriptions under fictitious names
2012-11
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Vermont | Primary care practice, South Burlington; retail pharmacies in Chittenden and Addison counties | Adderall and Vicodin | not stated | Physician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Psychiatrist reprimanded for prescribing Ritalin to her spouse without medical justification
2011-12
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California Ridgecrest, CA |
Ridgecrest, CA | Ritalin | Admitted to prescribing Ritalin to her spouse without adequate documentation of medical necessity. | not stated | Reprimand by the Maryland Board of Physicians, taken reciprocally after the Illinois Board of Medicine fined her for the same conduct | none documented | source |
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Internal medicine physician summarily suspended over chronic cocaine and opiate use
2011-11
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Maryland Baltimore, MD |
Facility | cocaine and opiates | The Board determined that the physician's chronic and active personal use of cocaine and opiates constituted a substantial likelihood of risk of serious harm to the public health, safety and welfare. | not stated | Summary suspension of medical license | none documented | source |
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General practice physician summarily suspended after admitting cocaine use in violation of probation
2006-01
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Maryland Columbia, MD |
private medical practice | cocaine | Tested positive for cocaine in violation of a prior consent order and admitted to using cocaine on the occasion that produced the positive test. | not stated | Summary suspension | none documented | source |
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