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DEA launches “Secure Your Meds” winter campaign

… to clean out your medicine cabinets and secure unused medications. This one action can prevent medications from getting into the hands of children and …
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National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to Remove Unneeded Prescriptions, Prevent Addiction

… to 2 p.m. This event offers anonymous disposal of unneeded medications at more than 4,000 local drop-off locations … Day has helped Americans easily rid their homes of unneeded medications—those that are old, unwanted, or expired.  These …
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Wisconsin Doctor Sentenced to 18 Months’ Imprisonment for Drug Crimes

… opiates, for years, in a manner outside of a professional medical practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose. At sentencing, the United States requested …
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DEA Investigation Results In Indictment Of Tucson Doctor

… the grand jury indictment of Dr. David Alan Ruben, a medical doctor and board certified psychiatrist. Dr. Ruben … 70, is the owner of Healthcare Southwest, a pain management medical clinic in Tucson. Pursuant to an Arizona Medical …
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Physician Practicing In Grass Valley, Yuba City Sentenced To More Than Four Years In Prison For Illegal Prescription Practice

… Agent-in-Charge John J. Martin announced. “By prescribing medications to patients he never physically examined in … opposite when he prescribed oxycodone without legitimate medical purpose and outside the usual course of practice. …
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Nevada Doctor Arrested On Federal Charges Of Illegally Selling Narcotic Prescriptions For Cash At High Desert Clinic

… 327-8900 Guam Hagatna - (671) 472-7384 LOS ANGELES - A medical doctor was arrested this morning on federal charges … of illegally selling prescriptions without a legitimate medical purpose to undercover operatives who visited the …
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Doctor Convicted In Death Of Patient

… CO doctor found guilty of prescribing without legitimate medical purpose, resulting in the death of one patient … - Dr. Joel Miller, who owned and operated High Country Medical in Craig, CO, was convicted by a jury today in the …
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Wayne Psychiatrist Pleads Guilty To Illegally Selling Oxycodone Prescriptions To Patients

… a Schedule II controlled substance, without a legitimate medical purpose and outside the usual course of professional … in exchange for a sum of money, without performing any medical examination. Ilem admitted that between June 2011 … amount of oxycodone prescriptions for patients that were medically unnecessary and outside the scope of common …
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New Jersey Residents Turn In Almost 18,000 Pounds Of Expired And Unwanted Prescriptions

… more than 893,000 pounds or 447 tons of prescription medications were collected.  This was the 11th National Take … to play a vital role in removing these unused prescription medications from their homes, especially the prescription …
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Doctor To Plead Guilty To Distributing Addictive Painkillers

… and one count of money laundering.  Sun, who operated medical clinics in San Gabriel and East Los Angeles, was … usual course of professional practice without a legitimate medical purpose.  Sun also admitted to issuing a dozen …
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Americans Turn Out In Droves For DEA’s Seventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

… turned in 647,211 (324 tons) of expired and unwanted medications for safe and proper disposal at the 5,683 … U.S. territories. This is the second-largest collection of medications in seven Take-Back Days. When the results of the …
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Marin Doctor Pleads Guilty To Illegally Prescribing Oxycodone

… course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose, announced Acting United States Attorney … occasion, Dr. Chiarottino failed to conduct an appropriate medical examination of, or obtain a sufficient patient …
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Physician Practicing In Grass Valley And Yuba City Indicted For Illegal Prescription Practice

… of oxycodone outside the usual course of professional medical practice and without legitimate medical purposes. … Board, and the California Attorney General’s Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse. Assistant United States …
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2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown

… schemes: (1) often result in physical patient harm through medically unnecessary treatments or failure to provide the …
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Local pain management doctor going to prison for 70 months for conspiring to distribute controlled substances and health care fraud

… reasonable practice of medicine and without a legitimate medical purpose and healthcare fraud—clearly did harm to … into Dr. Gosy’s role in the illegal proliferation of pain medication at the height of opioid epidemic was vindicated … substances that were prepared by persons who were not medically trained and issued by mid-level providers who had …
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National Healthcare Fraud Enforcement Action Results in Charges involving more than $1.4 Billion in Alleged Losses

… including 42 doctors, nurses, and other licensed medical professionals, in 31 federal districts across the … and private insurance companies for treatments that were medically unnecessary and often never provided. In the …
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Four Defendants Arrested on Charges They Conspired to Illegally Obtain and Distribute Oxycodone Out of a Pharmacy in Warren County

… Santiago, Miller and Vickers are charged with Falsifying Medical Records (4th Degree) and Falsifying or Tampering … Tactical Diversion Squad in Newark. The Monmouth County Medical Examiner’s Office also provided critical assistance. …
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DEA Issues Public Safety Alert on Sharp Increase in Fake Prescription Pills Containing Fentanyl and Meth

… networks and are made to look like real prescription opioid medications such as oxycodone (Oxycontin®, Percocet®), … throughout Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin to take only medications prescribed by licensed physicians and dispensed … to legitimate pharmaceutical medications prescribed by medical professionals and dispensed by licensed pharmacists. …
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Another Pill-Mill Doctor Sentenced To Over A Decade In Federal Prison

… to dispense oxycodone and other drugs without legitimate medical purpose, 49 counts of dispensing without legitimate medical purpose, and conspiracy to launder money.  United … stated, “The dispensing of addictive prescription pain medication under the guise of a doctor’s care is not about …
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Niagara Falls Doctor Among Fourteen Charged In Major Prescription Drug Investigation

… is Dr. Pravin V. Mehta, 73, of Amherst, New York, whose medical practice is located on Main Street in Niagara Falls, … primarily Opana and Oxycontin, to patients without a proper medical exam and outside the norms of professional medical … him and his coworkers to illegally distribute diverted pain medication in return for profit. Throughout this …
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United States Files Civil Complaint Seeking Injunctive Relief, Penalties And Forfeiture Of Assets Tied To Suffolk County Clinic’s Illegal Distribution Of Prescription Painkillers

… Westchester - (914) 682-6256 Complaint seeks forfeiture of medical clinic, multiple residences, bank accounts and … relief and penalties against Roger Kaplan and Choice Medical Services, P.C. (“Choice”), formerly known as Choice …
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National Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action Results in Charges Involving over $1.4 Billion in Alleged Losses

… including 42 doctors, nurses, and other licensed medical professionals, in 31 federal districts across the … to prevent the misuse and over-prescribing of controlled medications.” “This nationwide enforcement action …
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DEA Hosts the 30th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 25th

… anonymous way to dispose of expired and unused prescription medications. By getting rid of unnecessary medications in the home, families can help prevent …
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DEA Hosts the 30th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on April 25th

… anonymous way to dispose of expired and unused prescription medications. By getting rid of unnecessary medications in the home, families can help prevent …
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Dunkirk Man Arrested, Facing Drug and Gun Charges After Police Find Loaded Uzi and Other Guns in his Residence

… residue, several small bags of suspected cocaine and marijuana packaged for sale, suspected Gabapentin pills, and …
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Career Offender Sentenced for Meth Distribution

… a total of 114 grams of methamphetamine, 24 bags of marijuana with a total weight of 1.4 pounds, and $761 in …
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Bus Rider from Colorado Makes Prison Stop for Heroin Trafficking

… suspiciously, and admitted to officers that he had some marijuana in his possession. Officers searched Collins and …
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California Man Indicted for Transporting 165 Pounds of Meth

… methamphetamine. A small amount of personal use cocaine and marijuana were also found in the vehicle. Solis told …
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Jefferson City Man Charged with Heroin Trafficking

… of Bell’s car. Officers searched the vehicle and found a marijuana blunt and a Glock 9mm handgun. Officers also …
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Bathroom Shower No Place to Hide for Meth Trafficker Who Pleads Guilty

… in the laundry room and approximately 576 grams of packaged marijuana in the bedroom. According to court documents, …