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DEA and Partners Announce Results of 20th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… pounds (419.7 tons) of unused, expired, and unwanted medications across the country.  The Houston Field Division … and alleviate addiction by safely disposing of prescription medications that sit idle in the home,” said DEA Acting …
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Santa Rosa doctor indicted for unlawfully prescribing fentanyl and oxycodone

… scope of his professional practice and without a legitimate medical need, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, … scope of his professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose.  In March 2018, Keller allegedly … Blue Cross of California in March 2018, and the other to Medi-Cal in July 2015.  This prosecution is the result of …
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Ohio Doctor Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Illegally Prescribing Painkillers

… painkillers and other pills to customers for no legitimate medical purpose. These illegal prescribing patterns occurred … distributed hundreds of thousands of doses of prescription medications -- including Oxycontin, Percocet, Roxicet, …
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Doctor Sentenced To Prison For Distributing Prescription Pills

… in court documents that the prescriptions she wrote were medically unnecessary. In a 16-month period, Dr. Frankin … drugs.  Special Agent in Charge Manny Muriel stated, “The medically unnecessary prescribing of Oxycodone is a critical …
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Dr. Gerald Ratinov And 18 Others Arrested In Illegal Pain Management Clinic Operation

… a licensed and registered Texas physician, has maintained a medical license since December 1965. Since the initiation of …
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North Andover Psychiatrist Settles Drug Diversion Allegations

… Brian O’Keefe 508-509-1844 Brian.OKeefe@dea.gov Diversion/Medical Practitioner: 571-362-9171 Division Contacts … in connection with his uncontrolled storage of patient medication in a self-storage unit and his related failure to … revealed that Dr. Heller was improperly taking back unused medications from his patients, leaving those medications in …
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Matthew Peterson Sentenced After Pleading Guilty To Federal Charges For Stealing Prescription Opioids

… guilty to federal charges of fraudulently acquiring pain medication while he was employed as a paramedic. Peterson … those with an addiction - particularly caregivers and medical professionals - to seek help so they do not end up … condition and potentially exposed them to contaminated medications. This joint investigation between DEA and the …
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Physician Arrested For Allegedly Illegally Dispensing Oxycodone And Falsely Billing Medicare In Undercover Probe

… allegedly conspiring to illegally dispense a prescription medication and health care fraud, federal law enforcement … Sathish Narayanappa Babu, the owner of Anik Life Sciences Medical Corp., allegedly conspired to illegally dispense …
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DEA’s Seventh Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In Tennessee

… 26, 2013, turned in 10,029.84 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up … in approximately 10,030 pounds of unwanted or expired medications, nationally, more than 647,211 (324 tons) of expired and unwanted prescription medications were collected with more than 5,683 sites that …
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DEA’s Seventh Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In Georgia

… 26, 2013, turned in 8,153.25 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up … Georgians turned in 8,153 pounds of unwanted or expired medications, nationally, more than 647,211 (324 tons) of expired and unwanted prescription medications were collected with more than 5,683 sites that …
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DEA’s Seventh Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In North Carolina

… 26, 2013, turned in 10,880 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up … Carolinians turned in 10,880 pounds of unwanted or expired medications, nationally, more than 647,211 (324 tons) of expired and unwanted prescription medications were collected with more than 5,683 sites that …
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DEA’s Eighth Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In North Carolina

… 26, 2014, turned in 14,669 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up … Carolinians turned in 14,669 pounds of unwanted or expired medications, nationally, more than 780,158 pounds of expired and unwanted prescription medications were collected with more than 4,400 sites that …
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DEA’s Eighth Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In Georgia

… 26, 2014, turned in 10,020.02 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up … Georgians turned in 10,020.02 pounds of unwanted or expired medications, nationally, more than 780,158 pounds of expired and unwanted prescription medications were collected with more than 4,400 sites that …
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DEA’s Eighth Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In South Carolina

… 26, 2014, turned in 5,698 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up … Carolinians turned in 5,698 pounds of unwanted or expired medications, nationally, more than 780,158 pounds of expired and unwanted prescription medications were collected with more than 4,440 sites that …
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DEA’s Eighth Pill Take Back Event Yields Fruitful Results In Tennessee

… 26, 2014, turned in 10,747 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up … in approximately 10,747 pounds of unwanted or expired medications, nationally, more than 780,158 pounds of expired and unwanted prescription medications were collected with more than 4,400 sites that …
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DEA To Publish Final Rule Rescheduling Hydrocodone Combination Products

… Controlled Substances (CSA) places substances with accepted medical uses into one of four schedules, with the substances … for those controlled substances with no currently accepted medical use and lack of accepted safety for use.)  HCPs are … million Americans abuse controlled-substance prescription medications, including opioid painkillers, resulting in …
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East Bay Doctor Indicted For Health Care Fraud And Distribution Of Controlled Substances

… 2010 through April 2011, Toni Daniels was a self-employed medical doctor who met with customers at various retail … that Daniels knew that many of her customers used Medicare, Medi-Cal, and other private health insurance plans to cover the cost of the medically unnecessary medications that she prescribed. …
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Public Response To DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Days Keeps Growing

… turned in 18 (36,004 pounds) of unwanted and expired medications at 211 collection sites manned by 147 federal, … 2010. Nationwide, 742,497 (371 tons) of prescription medications were collected from members of the public at … events, more than 2.8 million (1,409 tons) of prescription medications have been removed from circulation.  The …
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DEA Hosts the 29th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 25th

… dispose of unnecessary, expired, and unused prescription medications to help prevent prescription drug misuse and … Agent in Charge James M. Nunnallee. “Disposing of these medications helps prevent misuse and keeps medications off …
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DEA Hosts the 29th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 25th

… dispose of unnecessary, expired, and unused prescription medications to help prevent prescription drug misuse and … way to dispose of unused, unwanted and/or expired medications while raising awareness about the dangers of …
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Physician pleads guilty to manslaughter and reckless endangerment in the deaths of three patients of his Flushing, Queens pill mill

… guilty plea of Dr. Lawrence Choy, the former operator of a medical clinic in Flushing, Queens, in connection with the … becoming aware of patients’ attempts to taper off addictive medications.   Choy drew patients from a wide geographic …
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Ft. Worth Doctors Leave Patients Wasted and Dazed in a Pill Mill Operation; 49 Arrested

… scheme, announced by the DEA Dallas Field Division.     “Medical professionals hold the public’s trust to provide … with codeine. Often, the doctors prescribed multiple medications simultaneously and at the highest dosages …
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Two Former Western Colorado Doctors Indicted For Illegally Prescribing Controlled Substances

… items and services. Specifically, Jahani operated a medical business called Urgent Care, Inc. which was formed … substances to patients without determining a sufficient medical necessity for the prescription to patients in a … killers, (such as Vicodin); and Schedule IV anti-anxiety medications, such as Xanax, Valium, Ativan Ambien and …
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Doctor, Office Administrator And Nurse Practitioner Selling Prescriptions For Fentanyl And Oxycodone

… Lopez, a New York-licensed doctor who wrote thousands of medically unnecessary prescriptions for oxycodone and … a pediatric nurse practitioner who also wrote medically unnecessary prescriptions for oxycodone, and Audra …
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DEA Delivers Major Blows to Drug Cartels, Advancing a Fentanyl Free America in 2026

… more than 230 pounds of cocaine, 880 pounds of illicit marijuana and 67 firearms, resulting in 115 arrests.   DEA … 20,944 lbs. 42,620 lbs. Cocaine 147,797 lbs. 77,846 lbs. Marijuana 65,142 lbs. 20,619 lbs. Heroin 1,183 lbs. 446 lbs. …
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Arizona THIS Saturday is DEA's 29th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… dispose of unnecessary, expired, and unused prescription medications to help prevent prescription drug misuse and … for Arizona residents to dispose of unneeded prescription medications at 60 collection sites throughout the State of …
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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®), … This alert does not apply to legitimate pharmaceutical medications prescribed by medical professionals and dispensed by licensed pharmacists. …
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Physician Assistant Sentenced for Conspiring to Distribute and Dispense Oxycodone, Fentanyl, Methadone, and Alprazolam

… the scope of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose. The sentence was announced by Jarod Forget, … Soyke had privileges to prescribe controlled substance medications but was required to operate under a delegation …
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DEA Atlanta Holds 22nd National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to prevent addiction and reduce overdose deaths

… bi-annual event offers free, anonymous disposal of unneeded medications at more than 4,000 local drop-off locations … public may now use drop boxes at Veterans Administration medical centers to dispose of controlled substance …
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DEA Charlotte Holds 22nd National Prescription Drug Take Back Day to prevent addiction and reduce overdose deaths

… bi-annual event offers free, anonymous disposal of unneeded medications at more than 4,000 local drop-off locations … public may now use drop boxes at Veterans Administration medical centers to dispose of controlled substance …