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National Health Care Fraud Takedown: Charges Against Over 412 Individuals Responsible For $1.3 Billion In Fraud

… districts, including 115 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals, for their alleged participation in … and veterans of the armed forces and their families) for medically unnecessary prescription drugs and compounded medications that often were never even purchased and/or …
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Federal health care fraud takedown in Northeastern U.S. results in 54 defendants charged and convicted

… claims made to federal payers, including 15 doctors or medical professionals, and 24 defendants are charged for … pharmacies improperly, to mis-prescribing unnecessary medications, to tricking patients – often the elderly or …
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DEA and Federal Partners Support Continuity of Patient Treatment

December 28, 2023
… can get the care they need in the event a doctor or medical facility is unable to provide treatment due to … among patients who lose access to a prescriber of opioids, medications for opioid use disorder, or other controlled …
December 28, 2023
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National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in Charges against 601 Individuals Responsible for over $2 Billion in Fraud Losses

… districts, including 165 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals, for their alleged participation in … and their families), and private insurance companies for medically unnecessary prescription drugs and compounded medications that often were never even purchased and/or …
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Kentucky Anesthesiologist Sentenced To 8+ Years For Unlawful Distribution Of Controlled Substances, Health Care Fraud And Money Laundering

… health care benefit programs.    Guerrero, 48, formerly a medical physician with offices in Louisville, Kentucky, and … diversion and abuse of controlled substance prescription medications is a top priority of the DEA.  In this instance, …
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DEA Issues Warning About Illegal Online Pharmacies

… turn to online pharmacies to purchase necessary medications [1] , DEA is issuing this Public Safety Alert to … prescription medications are those prescribed by a licensed medical provider and dispensed by a trusted pharmacy.  …
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Federal Grand Jury Charges Owner Of Several North Texas Pill Mills With Drug Distribution Conspiracy And Firearm Charges

… instance, Ware and James owned and operated Great Southwest Medical Clinic on Great Southwest Parkway in Dallas; Arlington Oaks Adult Medical Clinic on Billings Street in Arlington, Texas; and …
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The History of Red Ribbon Week

March 28, 2025
… Mexico, Kiki remained on the trail of the country's biggest marijuana and cocaine traffickers. In early 1985, he was …
March 28, 2025
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New Jersey News 2009

July 15, 2021
… to 49 Months in Federal Prison for Leading a Bi-coastal Marijuana Trafficking and Money Laundering Ring March 18, …
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Cigarette And Alcohol Use At Historic Low Among Teens

… high levels of abuse of alternate tobacco products, marijuana and prescription drugs hq121411_01t.jpg …
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Cincinnati Pharmaceutical Supplier’s DEA License Suspended

… Marquette, and Traverse City - (571) 362-0443 Keysource Medical distributed 48 million doses of oxycodone products … The investigation has revealed that several of Keysource Medical’s largest purchasers of oxycodone were engaged in …
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Five indicted for running a pill mill in Hamilton

… Mike DeWine; Anthony Groeber, Executive Director, State Medical Board of Ohio; Steven Schierholt, Executive … Center in Mason, Ohio. It is alleged that Sakkal prescribed medically-dangerous combinations of controlled substances, …
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Dekalb And Sterling Doctor And His Wife Charged With Illegally Dispensing Prescription Drugs And Income Tax Fraud

… medicine, and president and sole shareholder of Sauk Medical Clinic with offices located in Sterling and DeKalb, … Oxycodone, Methadone, Morphine, and other prescription pain medications outside the course of professional practice and …
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San Diego Pharmacy Owners Pay $750,000 To Resolve Drug Diversion Allegations

… or pseudoephedrine products.  The settlement is with Park Medical Pharmacy, Inc., and owners Joseph Grasela and John Grasela.  The Graselas and Park Medical Pharmacy, Inc. do business as Medical Center Pharmacy.  They operate a dozen storefront …
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Attorney General Chiesa Announces New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program

… a total of 2,520 doses o f highly addictive, narcotic medications classified as Controlled Dangerous Substances. … to meet their patients’ healthcare needs,” he said. Certain medical practices, such as those that specialize in pain …
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Drug Distribution Investigation Uncovers Massive Health Care Fraud

… against these 26 individuals, particularly of the medical professionals, are significant. These individuals … “Health care fraud and the abuse/diversion of prescription medications are increasing criminal threats to the United … the medications, despite the fact that the medications were medically unnecessary and/or never provided. Patients were …
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DEA’s National Take Back Day Returns April 26 to Help Prevent Prescription Drug Misuse

… and anonymous way to dispose of unneeded prescription medications. With nearly  4,500 collection sites nationwide, … Americans safely remove expired, unwanted, or unused medications from their homes—medications that might …
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DEA Encourages Communities to Make Every Day Take Back Day

… collection sites to dispose of unneeded and unwanted medications. For more than a decade, DEA has worked with … each year to help Americans rid their homes of unneeded medications. The Take Back program has received an …
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Staten Island Physician’s Assistant And Two Other Individuals Arrested For Illegal Distribution Of Oxycodone Pills

… ring they operated out of a Staten Island-based medical clinic run by Marchetta. As alleged, Marchetta wrote medically unnecessary prescriptions for large quantities of … abuse our health care system and illegally prescribe pain medication which ultimately is sold throughout our streets. …
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Multi-Agency Drug Bust Leads to Massive Seizures

… 11 pounds of fentanyl in pills and powder form, heroin, marijuana, and spice. Law enforcement also confiscated … Operation Fentanyl Methamphetamine Cocaine Heroin K2/Spice Marijuana (Cannabis) On On Press Release Image Layout …
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Seventeen Alleged Members And Associates Of MS-13 Indicted For Murder, Conspiracy To Commit Murder, Drug Trafficking

… in the Roosevelt/Freeport, NY area with the promise of marijuana - and intended to kill him. The following day, … Vida was charged with Possession with Intent to Distribute Marijuana and Harboring a Fugitive with the Intent to …
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El Cajon “Pill Mill” Doctor Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Causing the Illegal Distribution of Opioids

… for causing the illegal distribution of an opioid pain medication commonly known as Norco or Vicodin. Salerno, whose medical practice was located on El Cajon Boulevard, pleaded … practice. “While the vast majority of doctors prescribe medications in compliance with federal laws, there will …
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Pawankumar Jain Pleads Guilty To Unlawfully Dispensing Prescription Painkillers And Health Care Fraud

… - (432) 837-6000 Midland - (432) 686-4085 Physician whose medical license was revoked in Dec. 2012, prosecuted as part … Medicaid, by submitting claims for payment for prescription medications he dispensed to patients outside the usual …
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Gloucester County Man Admits Healthcare Fraud

… of more than $4 million by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary compounded medications, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement …
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DEA Holds National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Turn the Tide Against the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

… 23, DEA encourages Americans to safely dispose of unneeded medications that too often become a gateway to addiction … the only safe medications are ones prescribed by a trusted medical professional and dispensed by a licensed pharmacist. …
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More Charges Against State Lawmaker for $900,000 COVID-19 Fraud Scheme

… assistant physician, operates three for-profit Ozark Valley Medical Clinic locations in Springfield, Ozark, and Branson, … non-profit corporation Lift Up Someone Today, Inc., with a medical and dental clinic in Springfield to serve the poor, …
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Doctor indicted on Manslaughter and Reckless Endangerment Charges in Three Overdose Deaths

… lethal dosages and combinations for no legitimate medical purpose to patients of his medical practice in … (an addictive opioid painkiller) and the anti-anxiety medication alprazolam (a benzodiazepine commonly known by … In addition, Choy allegedly prescribed addictive medications in inappropriately high dosages and pill counts, …
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DEA to Hold 21st Take Back Event on Saturday, October 23rd, 2021

… DEA encourages Americans to safely dispose of unneeded medications that too often become a gateway to addiction. … the only safe medications are ones prescribed by a trusted medical professional and dispensed by a licensed pharmacist. …
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DEA Holds National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Turn the Tide Against the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

… 23, DEA encourages Americans to safely dispose of unneeded medications that too often become a gateway to addiction … the only safe medications are ones prescribed by a trusted medical professional and dispensed by a licensed pharmacist. …
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Pawan Kumar Jain Arrested On Charges Of Unlawfully Dispensing Prescription Drugs And Health Care Fraud

… alleges that Jain’s over-prescribing of opioid pain medication resulted in the deaths of two patients LAS … a neurology subspecialty who operated a pain management medical practice in Las Cruces.  Jain’s medical license was …