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33 Indicted In Mid-State Drug Conspiracy Involving Oxycodone And Other Pharmaceuticals Upper Cumberland Region Was Target Of Investigation

… three controlled substances: (which includes OxyContin, Percocet, and Roxicodone), (which includes Vicodin and …
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West Los Angeles Pharmacy Owners Found Guilty In National Illegal Prescription Drug Trafficking Scheme

… the brand name OxyContin, but also the main ingredient in Percocet and Percodan), (also known as Dilaudid), and …
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Doctor Pleads Guilty To 18 Drug Trafficking Charges For Dispensing Narcotics Without Examining “Patients”

… which is sold under a number of brand names, including Percocet; hydromorphone, which is sold under the brand name, …
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Nine Brockton Men Face Narcotics And Weapons Charges

… Veiga, 23, were charged with distribution of Class B, Percocets; and Nelson Dossantos, 23, is still wanted in the …
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Career Criminal Lenny Cain Sentenced To Over 13 Years In Prison In Oxycodone Conspiracy

… prescriptions for oxycodone, also known as Oxycontin and Percocet.  The leaders also recruited individuals, called …
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U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Emergency Schedules All Illicit Fentanyls In An Effort To Reduce Overdose Deaths

… prescription drugs. As a consequence, users who buy these substances on the illicit market are often unaware …
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“Pill Mill” doctor pleads guilty to opioid distribution, admits signing prescriptions for dead and jailed patients

… 78,544 hydrocodone pills. Hydrocodone is an opioid pain medication commonly known as Norco or Vicodin. Salerno … has been devastated by the negative effects of prescription pain medication,” said DEA Special Agent in Charge John W. …
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Joplin Physician Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud

… a false statement relating to health care. Stelling was a pain management physician who owned and operated Stelling Pain Management, LLC, in Joplin. According to today’s plea …
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Physician, Physician Assistant, and Practice Pay $300K to Resolve Controlled Substances Act Allegations

… NORVAL, and MULTICARE MUSCULOSKETETAL MEDICINE AND PAIN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES, P.C. have entered into a civil … practiced at Multicare Musculoskeletal Medicine and Pain Management Associates, P.C., a medical practice located …
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East Bay Doctor Sentenced to Prison for Distributing Opioids Outside the Scope of Medical Practice

… asked Karimi for 10mg Norco tablets based on a claim of leg pain resulting from work as a restaurant server. Karimi … asking follow-up questions about the undercover’s reported pain, without obtaining medical records, and without …
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Doctor charged for prescribing narcotics to non-patients and ordered detained until trial

… describes Di Blasi as providing prescriptions for opioid pain medications and amphetamines to non-patients he met in … will continue to target those who traffic these addictive pain medications.”   “A key component of the opioid crisis …
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San Jose Doctor Convicted of Twelve Counts of Illegally Prescribing Opioids

… from Siao despite complaining of only vaguely of pain or discomfort, requesting specific opioids by name, and … Guidelines for Prescribing Controlled Substances for Pain, had learned the dangers of addiction, and had been …
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Santa Rosa Doctor Sentenced to More than Two Years in Prison for Unlawfully Prescribing Fentanyl and Oxycodone

… - (571) 387-3956 SAN FRANCISCO –Thomas Keller, formerly a pain management doctor in Santa Rosa, has been sentenced to … a Santa Rosa resident and a licensed physician who ran a pain management practice in Santa Rosa when he was indicted …
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Former Nurse Sentenced to 18 Months in Federal Prison for Tampering with Morphine Medications at Moses Lake Clinic

… by hospitals and health care facilities to relieve pain. While working at Confluence Health, Tuller used … room; that patient continued to be in excruciating pain after receiving only saline from what was supposed to …
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Federal Court Orders Clinic to Close, Physician and Clinic Owners to Pay $600,000 for Alleged Unlawful Opioid Distribution

… WASHINGTON – A federal court ordered a Tampa-area pain management clinic to close and directed the clinic’s … practice while employed at Paragon Community Healthcare, a pain clinic in New Port Richey, Florida. The complaint …
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Former physician assistant convicted in kickback scheme

… Food and Drug Administration to treat breakthrough cancer pain. From approximately June 2013 through fall 2014, Clough … the drug for patients who did not have breakthrough cancer pain. He often started patients on high doses of the …
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Nurse Pleads Guilty to Tampering with Morphine at Moses Lake Clinic

… by hospitals and health care facilities to relieve pain. While working at Confluence Health, Tuller used … room; that patient continued to be in excruciating pain after receiving only saline from what was supposed to …
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Anchorage nurse practitioner and Soldotna doctor arrested on separate federal narcotics charges

… is a licensed Advanced Nurse Practitioner specializing in pain management and addiction treatment. Spayd was arrested … because it was common knowledge that people could obtain pain medication prescriptions from him even though they did …
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Thirty-Three Individuals Arrested On Prescription Fraud Charges

… shopping." Hydrocodone and oxycodone are opioid narcotic pain relievers that are medically prescribed to treat moderate to severe pain and can be habit-forming if misused. There is a strong …
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Twenty-Three Individuals Arrested On Prescription Fraud Charges

… shopping.”  Hydrocodone and oxycodone are opioid narcotic pain relievers that are medically prescribed to treat moderate to severe pain and can be habit-forming if misused. There is a strong …
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CleanSlate Addiction Treatment Centers Settle Allegations Of Unlicensed Prescribing And Improper Billing

… addicted to opioids, including heroin and prescription painkillers, through medication and counseling. The … III controlled substance that also can be used to treat pain.  Until recently, only a physician could prescribe … to a recent surge in the theft and misuse of prescription pain medications. As a result, federal, state, and local law …
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Doctor Sentenced To 7 Years For Illegally Prescribing Narcotics, Defrauding Government Programs

… and throughout New England.  The diversion of prescription pain killers, in this case oxycodone, contributes to the … he should stop prescribing oxycodone and other narcotic pain medications to certain patients who showed obvious …
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Tufts Medical Center & Local Pharmacy Chain Settle Alleged Violations Of Controlled Substances Act

… not adhered to, it allows for the diversion of prescription pain medication, which contributes to the widespread abuse … in the theft, sale, distribution and misuse of prescription pain medication.  As a result, federal, state and local law …
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Astoria Doctor Indicted In Illegal Sales Of 130 Painkiller Prescriptions: Three Patients Received 30,000 Pills In 6 Months

… Astoria Doctor Indicted In Illegal Sales Of 130 Painkiller Prescriptions: Three Patients Received 30,000 … 130 prescriptions for oxycodone, a highly addictive opioid painkiller. Duffy, an internal medicine practitioner who … of similarly-aged individuals and does not always cause pain. Despite his poor record keeping, notations in the …
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Smithtown Doctor Indicted For The Illegal Distribution Of Controlled Substances Without Legitimate Medical Need

… methodone and alprazalom, highly addictive prescription pain medications.   The defendant is scheduled to be … allege that between May 2010 and September 2014, Fagin, a pain management doctor, issued multiple controlled substance …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges Doctor And Associates As Members Of A Conspiracy To Distribute Oxycodone And Cocaine

… in oxycodone. Properly prescribed, oxycodone is a remedy in pain management. Improperly used, it is a highly addictive … in the Bronx, New York. The abuse of diverted prescription pain medication is the fastest growing drug problem in our …
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Pharmacy Tech Charged With Tampering With Opioids

… was charged today with tampering with vials of opioid painkillers used in the compounding of intravenous fluid … willing to subject terminal cancer patients to intolerable pain in order to feed his own addiction,” Town said. “This … their intended purpose of controlling intense and prolonged pain instead suffered at the hands of a man who knew the …
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Queens Doctor Indicted For Illegal Distribution Of Oxycodone

… Doctor continued to write prescriptions for powerful painkiller after surrender of his DEA registration BROOKLYN, … highly-addictive prescription medicine used to treat severe pain. Mayard is scheduled to be arraigned at 3:00 p.m. today … abused his position as a licensed Doctor by prescribing pain medications to ‘patients’ with no legitimate medical …
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Notorious street market for narcotics dismantled in Bronx: major trafficker among 14 charged; two guns recovered

… New York and the Northeast.”  “We hope these arrests bring relief to the beleaguered residents and business owners of …
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Career Offender from West Memphis Sentenced to 12 years in Federal Prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Meth

… to deliver marijuana, two convictions for the sale or delivery of cocaine, and a conviction for the sale or delivery of marijuana, he is classified as a career offender …