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Second Nationwide Drug Take Back Surpasses Last Year’s Totals

… 210-4300 Milwaukee - (414) 336-7300 Over 300,000 pounds of medication collected across the US CHICAGO, IL. - On Saturday, April 30, 2011, there were over 5,300 medication collection sites sponsored by the Drug … removed a massive amount of unused, unwanted, and expired medications from homes. Collectively working together, …
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Former Union General Hospital CEO and two Blairsville doctors sentenced to federal prison for illegally prescribing and obtaining pain pills

… and obtaining more than 15,000 doses of prescription pain medications outside the usual course of professional practice and for no legitimate medical purpose.  In addition, Heaton was convicted of 27 …
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New Orleans Division 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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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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Staten Island Physician’s Assistant Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Massive Oxycodone Distribution Conspiracy

… massive quantity of oxycodone out of a Staten Island-based medical clinic he oversaw. During a period of approximately … three years, in exchange for cash payments, Marchetta wrote medically unnecessary prescriptions for more than 125,000 … was able to diagnose and treat illnesses and prescribe medications. From at least 2012 until his arrest, Marchetta …
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Doctor And 10 Other Individuals Involved In Illegal Distribution Of More Than One Million Oxycodone Pills

… below, the distribution ring operated out of purported medical clinics in Manhattan and the Bronx, including the … state licensed doctor, who alone wrote more than 13,000 medically unnecessary prescriptions for oxycodone in a …
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Suspended Physician Sentenced To 1 A½ Years For Illegally Dispensing Oxycodone And Falsely Billing Medicare In Undercover Probe

… - (414) 336-7300 CHICAGO - ― A suburban physician whose medical license was suspended was sentenced today to 18 … care fraud and illegally prescribing controlled substance medications. The defendant, Sathish Narayanappa Babu, who …
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Owner and Employees of Alleged Pill Mill Facing Federal Indictment

… Joyce Shawanda Edwards owned and operated Personal Touch Medical Spa, LLP (“PTMS”), formerly known as Holistic Health and Wellness Medical Spa LLP, a purported “pain management” clinic …
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DEA Holds National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Turn the Tide Against the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

… This event offers free and anonymous disposal of unneeded medications at more than 4,000 local drop-off locations … 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

… This event offers free and anonymous disposal of unneeded medications at more than 4,000 local drop-off locations … the only safe medications are ones prescribed by a trusted medical professional and dispensed by a licensed pharmacist. …
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Thirteen Individuals Indicted In Prescription Drug Distribution Scheme And Health Care Fraud

… supposedly provided to the patients, without regard to the medical necessity of those prescriptions and services.  The … Medicaid, and private insurers, for dispensing the medications, despite the fact that the medications were medically unnecessary and, in many cases, never provided.  …
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Local Doctor And Pharmacist Arrested In Pill Mill Investigation

… and co-owner and supervising physician of McAllen Medical Clinic, located on South Hampton in Dallas.  … a Schedule III controlled substance, without a legitimate medical purpose and not in the usual course of professional …
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Miami News 2005

July 15, 2021
… To A Drug Facilitated Murder  MAY 17, 2005 Seizure of Marijuana Plants in Cape Coral  MAY 13, 2005 Putnam and …
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Miami News 2010

July 15, 2021
… Charges April 16, 2010 Kobie Gary Sentenced to Jail on Marijuana Grow House Conspiracy April 14, 2010 Colombian …
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DEA Releases 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment

… as prescription drugs, heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, and hundreds of synthetic drugs. New to this …
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DEA and FDA shut down 44 websites advertising illegal vaping cartridges

… high concentrations of THC may be more intense than plant marijuana use, including paranoia, anxiety, panic attacks, …
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Jefferson County Woman Sentenced For Drug Trafficking Violations

… the warrant, officers discovered crack cocaine, firearms, marijuana and Hydrocodone.  Lugo absconded while awaiting …
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Okeechobee Man Pleads Guilty To Possessing Over Half-kilogram Of Cocaine And Six Ounces Of Fentanyl Found In Car

… violation. McQueen volunteered that he was in possession of marijuana, but claimed he had just cleaned the car, so no …
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Gregg County Man Sentenced For Drug Trafficking Violations

… arrest resulted in the seizure of $14,624 in cash, heroin, marijuana, and multiple firearms. Hearnsberger was indicted …
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Nuevo Progreso Man Sentenced To Nearly 12 Years For Drug Trafficking

… 212 kilograms of cocaine and approximately 519 kilograms of marijuana on Nov. 29, 2012. Today, U.S. District Judge …
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Coldspring, Texas Man Sentenced For Federal Drug Violations

… on Mar. 21, 2011 to possession with intent to distribute marijuana and was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison …
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Sanderson Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty

… on July 13, 2012, Clayton sold cocaine, cocaine base and marijuana to a confidential source for $320. Court records …
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Suffolk County, N.Y. Man Sentenced To 42 Months In Prison For Stealing Oxycodone From Manufacturing Facility

… Department into the distribution of oxycodone, cocaine and marijuana in Fairfield County.  Sixteen individuals were …
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DEA, FBI, VIPD Arrests Seven Individuals On Federal Drug Trafficking Charges In The U.S. Virgin Islands

… Air Marine Branch and V.I. Police Department. Cocaine, marijuana and weapons were seized as the result of related …
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Mercedes Man Gets Hefty Sentence For Transporting Cocaine

… conviction of possessing with the intent to distribute marijuana in 2005 and his prior aggravated assault …
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DEA Announces Tip Line, Wanted Poster For Chapo

… Additionally, the organization operates several large scale marijuana plantations in Sinaloa and surrounding areas. The …
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Pasco Man Sentenced To 18 Years For Heroin Trafficking

… officers discovered methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and a marijuana growing operation, as well as multiple firearms.  …
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IRS Employee Pleads Guilty To Structuring Drug Proceeds

… an IRS employee, structured cash derived from interstate marijuana trafficking organization run by her brother Joseph …
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Deputy United States Marshal One Of Three Indicted As Part Of Armed Robbery Crew

… three individuals at gunpoint of approximately 24 pounds of marijuana. This case is the product of an investigation by …
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Former State Lawmaker Sentenced for COVID-19 Fraud Scheme at Springfield Health Care Charity

… Derges formerly operated 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. COVID-19 Fraud …