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Texas clinic owner and clinic employee sentenced to prison for conspiring to unlawfully prescribe hundreds of thousands of opioids

… months in prison, respectively, today for their roles at a “pill mill” where they and their coconspirator illegally … Clinic in Rosenberg, Texas, which he operated as an illegal pill mill.  Arif was an employee at Aster Medical Clinic who …
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DEA announces 19th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

… DEA SAC Steven S. Whipple.  “The majority of prescription pill abusers first abused pills found in a home medicine cabinet.  This year’s …
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DEA Hosts Its Third Statewide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

… be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state free of charge, no questions … and increased enforcement to address doctor shopping and pill mills. On …
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Owner Of Multiple Ohio Pain Clinics Sentenced To 14 Years In Prison And Ordered To Forfeit $6.3 Million In Pain Clinic Profits

… Care in Columbus, Ohio. “Bias was a huge part of a greater pill tsunami into the Southern Ohio area,” Assistant U.S. … to sentencing. The “clinics were just a portion of the pill operations being run by felons and failed doctors in …
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Four Michigan Men Charged With Distributing Heroin, Fentanyl And Vicodin, That Resulted In Three Overdose Deaths

… response to the ongoing epidemic of heroin and prescription pill abuse in the United States and in southeast Michigan. … third indictment charged Stevens with distributing Vicodin pills to an 18-year-old man from Franklin. The man died of …
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Michigan Doctor Receives Nearly 5 Year Federal Prison Sentence For Drug Distribution And Health Care Fraud

… doctor will spend nearly five years in prison for running a pill mill and fueling the prescription drug addiction … said. "Doctors who poison our community by pushing pain pills for profit will be treated as criminals and held …
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New Jersey Doctor Convicted By Federal Jury For Writing Illegal Oxycodone Prescriptions In Drug Distribution Conspiracy

… in a conspiracy that put tens of thousands of prescription pills on the streets for resale. Michael Durante, 59, of … provided prescriptions for more than 70,000 oxycodone pills to be illegally resold by his coconspirators. At …
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DEA Holds Its Fifth Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 29 As Public Participation Continues To Rise

… Take Back Days give the public the opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … partners. DEA’s last event collected more than double the pills as their first event two years ago, with almost 50% …
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Milford Psychiatrist Pleads Guilty To Illegal Drug Distribution And Health Care Fraud Offenses

… “We are finding with increasing frequency that the types of pills he distributed are contributing to drug overdose … recklessly and illegally put these and other prescription pills on the street.  I thank our partners in this ongoing …
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Fairfield Doctor Who Illegally Prescribed Oxycodone Sentenced

… 2016, authorized the couple to receive thousands of pills of oxycodone and Percocet, a medication containing … through a middleman for street-level resale of the pills in and around Waterbury.  The Controlled Substances …
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Violent South Coast Drug Dealer Sentenced To Over 20 Years In Prison

… brothers believed they were purchasing 15,000 OxyContin pills.  Instead, Monteiro and his crew robbed the Gonsalves … brothers of the $225,000 they brought to purchase the pills.   Judge Casper previously sentenced Monteiro’s heroin …
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MGH To Pay $2.3 Million To Resolve Drug Diversion Allegations

… hospital.  Altogether, the two nurses stole nearly 16,000 pills, mostly oxycodone, an addictive painkiller.  Both … DEA’s ensuing audit of MGH’s controlled substances revealed pill count discrepancies totaling over 20,000, missing or …
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Fairfield Doctor Pleads Guilty To Illegally Prescribing Oxycodone

… 2016, authorized the couple to receive thousands of pills of oxycodone and Percocet, a medication containing … through a middleman for street-level resale of the pills in and around Waterbury. The Controlled Substances Act …
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Johnson City Doctor Pleads Guilty: Failure To Keep Drug Records/ Making False Statements To Drug Enforcement Administration

… occasions. On June 3, 2008, he ordered 30 Suboxone 8/2 mg pills from Dendrite Interactive Marketing, a drug … our efforts to help eradicate the illegal prescription pill distribution problem by focusing on the medical …
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DEA Office In Atlanta Holding Its Sixth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, Saturday, April 27, 2013

… opportunity these Take-Back Day events provide to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … area, where Georgians will be able to drop off their pills at sites across the state free of charge, again, no …
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DEA Office In Charlotte Holding Its Sixth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, Saturday, April 27, 2013

… opportunity these Take-Back Day events provide to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … where North Carolinians will be able to drop off their pills at sites across the state free of charge, again, no …
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DEA Office In Columbia Holding Its Sixth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, Saturday, April 27, 2013

… opportunity these Take-Back Day events provide to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … where South Carolinians will be able to drop off their pills at sites across the state free of charge, again, no …
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DEA Office In Nashville Holding Its Fourth Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, Saturday, April 27, 2013

… opportunity these Take-Back Day events provide to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … area, where Tennesseans will be able to drop off their pills at sites across the state free of charge, again, no …
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Major Drug Trafficker Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison

… been sentenced to prison for trafficking more than 185,000 pills of (MDMA), methamphetamine, (which is a drug similar … drug traffickers. In total, Bushay distributed over 185,000 pills.  Bushay also used former-Customs and Border …
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DEA’s Ninth And Final Prescription Drug Take Back Day Being Held Saturday September 27

… enter their zip code.  Or they can call 800-882-9539.  Only pills and other solids, like patches, can be brought to the … its recognition of the need for a way to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially …
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Three More Charged In Federal Steroid And Prescription Narcotic Distribution Investigation

… charging 11 individuals with steroid and prescription pill distribution offenses.  Eight of the individuals … members of the conspiracy were distributing prescription pills, including oxycodone. Charged in the 12-count …
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DEA Continues Its Drug Abuse Prevention Efforts With Prescription Drug Take Back Day This Saturday

… taken in over 7.1 million pounds-more than 3,500 tons-of pills.  “Prescription drug abuse has become the nation’s … site on www.dea.gov  or by calling 800-882-9529.  Only pills and other solids, like patches, can be brought to the …
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Gramercy Physician Convicted In 39 Illegal Prescription Sales

… prescriptions from the doctor in order to sell the pills on the black market. Testimony detailed how Castro … overdose in Middlesex, N.J. and authorities discovered a pill bottle with Castro’s name on the label at the scene. At …
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Heroin Traffickers Sentenced To Federal Prison For Roles In Multi-state Conspiracy

… of heroin that had been pressed to resemble oxycodone pills. The heroin had been pressed into pills while in California and then shipped into the Baton …
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DEA Hosts Its Fifth Statewide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 29 As Public Participation Continues To Rise

… Take Back Days give the public the opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially … be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state free of charge; no questions …
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DEA Collected A Record Amount Of Unwanted Rx Medication In The State Of New York

… Take-Back Day this past Saturday collected 50 percent more pills nationally and 55 percent more in New York State than … and increased enforcement to address doctor shopping and pill mills. Shortly after DEA’s first Take-Back Day event …
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Manhattan Doctor Pleads Guilty To Illegally Selling Prescriptions To Drug Trafficking Organization

… out prescriptions for controlled substances - typically 180 pills of oxycodone at 30 mg strength - without ever having … charges in the indictment related to 42 prescriptions for pills with an approximate street value of more than …
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Army Doctor Indicted For Illegally Distributing Oxycodone

… apart at different pharmacies and far exceed the amount of pills two people could consume for legitimate purposes. The … 3,000 30 mg oxycodone tablets for $10 - $12 per tablet with pills obtained from prescriptions through these individuals. …
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Former Alexandria Doctor Receives 70 Months In Prison For Conspiring To Distribute Oxycodone

… for pain medications, sometimes exceeding 2,000 pills per patient each month. Wade frequently issued these … patient. Oxycodone is the active ingredient in brand name pills such as OxyContin, Roxicodone and Percocet.  It is a …
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Saint Margret Middle School Presentation

… the dangers of abusing pharmaceutical medications “pain pills” and synthetic drugs. Guest speakers included, … the identification of pharmaceuticals, most commonly abused pills/drugs, signs and symptoms of drug abuse and resources …