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Founder of New York Narcotics Delivery Service Sentenced to 150 Months in Prison for Causing Three Overdose Deaths

… Founder of New York Narcotics Delivery Service Sentenced to 150 Months in Prison for … to 150 months in prison for operating the Cab Louie Delivery Service, an on-demand drug courier service that … Louie Delivery Service.  Tejada personally made two of the deliveries, Abisada made three, and Perez made one.   In …
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Doctor Indicted For Illegally Prescribing Fentanyl And Hydrocodone Based Drugs To Patients

… patients of his, in which he prescribed them opioid based pain relief drugs without a legitimate medical reason. … to be provided for use in cancer patients with breakthrough pain, and the patient Dr. Dean was prescribing this drug to …
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Charlottesville Dermatologist Sentenced for Diverting Pain Medication

… Charlottesville Dermatologist Sentenced for Diverting Pain Medication July 30, 2021 Washington, DC Contact Info … number of her co-workers to obtain prescription opioid pain medication.   Dr. Amalie Shaffner Derdeyn, 48, of …
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Savannah Woman Pleads Guilty to Laundering ‘Pill Mill’ Money

… plea of guilty. “The dispensing of addictive prescription pain medication (oftentimes opiate-based) under the guise of … “Jamesetta Whipple-Duncan directly profited from the pain Dr. Frank Bynes caused to the community,” said Derrick …   “Our military and their families, at times seeking pain relief from an injury, have been substantially impacted …
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Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 7 Years for Operating Cocaine Delivery Service in Chicago Area

… Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 7 Years for Operating Cocaine Delivery Service in Chicago Area December 16, 2022 Chicago … bags for retail sale and dispatched drivers to complete deliveries to customers. One of the drivers was Tony …
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Former Chief Operating Officer of Area Pain Clinics Indicted

… Former Chief Operating Officer of Area Pain Clinics Indicted September 29, 2023 Washington, DC … week charging the former chief operating officer of area pain clinics with three conspiracy counts for her alleged …
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Bitcoin Exchanger Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To Four Years In Prison For Selling Nearly $1 Million In Bitcoins For Drug Buys On Silk Road

… Prison For Selling Nearly $1 Million In Bitcoins For Drug Buys On Silk Road January 20, 2015 New York Contact Info … Road,” a black-market website designed to enable users to buy and sell illegal drugs anonymously and beyond the reach …
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Former CEO Of Bitcoin Exchange Company Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To Two Years In Prison For Helping To Sell Nearly $1 Million In Bitcoins For Drug Buys On Silk Road

… For Helping To Sell Nearly $1 Million In Bitcoins For Drug Buys On Silk Road December 19, 2014 New York Contact Info … Road,” a black-market website designed to enable users to buy and sell illegal drugs anonymously and beyond the reach …
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Triad Residents Sentenced On Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering Charges

… United States Postal Service to ship pounds of marijuana in overnight packages from Fresno, California, to … sender and receiver names and no signature was required for delivery. Once the marijuana was received in North Carolina, …
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Leader of Drug Delivery Service Responsible for Three Fentanyl Poisoning Deaths Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison

… Leader of Drug Delivery Service Responsible for Three Fentanyl Poisoning … text message, acting like a dispatcher, coordinating drug deliveries by messaging his couriers and his customers. In …
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Illinois Man Found Guilty of Selling Fatal Fentanyl Pills

… Illinois, of a charge related to his sale of fake Percocet pills that killed a man in St. Louis County in … cellular phone on Dec. 3, 2022, seeking the prescription pain pill Percocet. The victim bought three pills that mimicked the …
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Husband and wife sentenced in connection with pain clinic pill mill scheme

… Husband and wife sentenced in connection with pain clinic pill mill scheme November 18, 2019 New Orleans … From January 2012 through December 2015, Cindy Dunn ran a pain management clinic in Moody, Alabama operating under the …
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Snohomish Nurse Sentenced To Prison For Stealing Pain Medication From Nursing Home

… Snohomish Nurse Sentenced To Prison For Stealing Pain Medication From Nursing Home March 07, 2011 Seattle … limited time left. The medications were to alleviate their pain, to make their final days as pain-free as possible. The …
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Three Defendants Arrested for Operating Narcotics Delivery Service Responsible for Three Overdose Deaths from Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine

… Three Defendants Arrested for Operating Narcotics Delivery Service Responsible for Three Overdose Deaths from … contact who, like a dispatcher, coordinated narcotics deliveries with his couriers and his customers.   Rainey and …
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Pain Clinic Owners, Distributors And Runners Indicted For Allegedly Conspiring To Operate “Pill Mills”

… Pain Clinic Owners, Distributors And Runners Indicted For … drug conspiracy and other charges for operating purported pain management clinics that the indictments allege were …
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Florida Doctor Convicted In Kentucky For Illegally Prescribing 600,000 Pain Pills

… Convicted In Kentucky For Illegally Prescribing 600,000 Pain Pills December 18, 2012 Detroit Contact Info Contact Us … jury convicted a Florida doctor of conspiring with a pain clinic owner and others to illegally prescribe hundreds …
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APRN Admits Receiving Kickbacks From Drug Company For Prescribing Pain Medication

… Receiving Kickbacks From Drug Company For Prescribing Pain Medication June 23, 2015 New England Contact Info … as an Advanced Practice Registered (APRN) at Comprehensive Pain and Headache Treatment (CPHTC) located in Derby.  As …
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Illinois Man Sentenced to More Than 23 Years in Prison for Selling Fatal Fentanyl

… T. Schelp on Tuesday sentenced a man who sold the fake Percocet pills that killed a man in St. Louis County in 2022 … cell phone on Dec. 3, 2022, seeking the prescription pain pill Percocet. The victim bought three pills that appeared to be …
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Mariah Ferry and Jose Torrez plead guilty to federal kidnapping charges for abducting and brutally beating two victims suspected of stealing drugs and money

… contacted M.T. under a ruse that Smothermon wanted to buy marijuana from M.T. When M.T. arrived at Smothermon’s … to another location where those co-conspirators held M.T. overnight before releasing him. On Aug. 9, 2017, Ferry drove …
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RX Trafficking Ring Controlled Brooklyn Medical Practices: Nearly $3.4 Million In Pills Diverted

… 170,000 pills of oxycodone, a potent type of narcotic painkiller, and nearly 12,000 pills of (Xanax), a highly … “Every day, we read about the dramatic increase in Rx pain med abuse and its effect throughout our country.  Just … are supplying, and the inherent dangers associated with pain pill trafficking.  Law enforcement at all levels has …
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Five indicted for running a pill mill in Hamilton

… of Cincinnati, owned and operated Cincinnati Centers for Pain Relief in Hamilton, Ohio from March 2013 through … as such, it allegedly operated almost exclusively as a pain clinic. The 114-count indictment alleges patients were …
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Dr. Gerald Ratinov And 18 Others Arrested In Illegal Pain Management Clinic Operation

… Dr. Gerald Ratinov And 18 Others Arrested In Illegal Pain Management Clinic Operation March 29, 2011 Houston …
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Pain Management Doctor Arrested In Health Care Fraud Cases

… Pain Management Doctor Arrested In Health Care Fraud Cases … Dr. Tarabein operated the Eastern Shore Neurology and Pain Center, a private clinic in Daphne, Alabama where he …
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Mexican National Sentenced to 144 Months for Drug Trafficking in the Tri Cities

… 2020, Madrigal-Deniz made arrangements for a ten-pound delivery of methamphetamine from Muniz-De La Mora, who …
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Two Mobile Pain Doctors Convicted After Seven-Week Trial

… Two Mobile Pain Doctors Convicted After Seven-Week Trial March 02, 2017 … R. Brown. Ruan and Couch jointly owned and operated two pain management clinics under the name Physicians Pain …
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San Diego Pharmacy Pays $105,000 Penalty for Illegitimately Dispensing Opioids

… only fill prescriptions that are written for a legitimate medical purpose while acting in the usual course of … that overdose risk is elevated in patients receiving medically prescribed opioids, particularly those receiving … other things, tracking MMEs advances better practices for pain management by reinforcing the need to consider …
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DEA’S National Prescription Drug Take-Back Days Meet A Growing Need For Americans

… more than 54 percent of people who abuse prescription pain relievers got them through friends or relatives, a … and pet owners to dispose of such CS medications as painkillers, sedatives, and stimulants like ADHD drugs.  People were flushing their old meds down the toilet or throwing them in the trash.  DEA …
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Doctor Arrested For Illegally Selling Prescriptions To Overdose Victim: Pain Management Clinic Shuttered

… For Illegally Selling Prescriptions To Overdose Victim: Pain Management Clinic Shuttered November 21, 2011 New York … sold prescriptions for controlled substances from a pain management clinic he operated in Flushing, Queens. The …
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Narcotics (Opioids)

Opium

January 22, 2025
Opium is a highly addictive non-synthetic narcotic that is extracted from the poppy plant, Papaver somniferum. The opium poppy is the key source for many narcotics, including morphine, codeine, and heroin.
January 22, 2025
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Missouri Woman Admits Fraudulently Obtaining Pain Pills Meant for Animals

… Missouri Woman Admits Fraudulently Obtaining Pain Pills Meant for Animals August 04, 2023 St. Louis … Montgomery City, Missouri, admitted fraudulently obtaining pain pills meant for animals on Friday. Mackenzie Noel …