| An investigation identified a health care worker who was diverting injectable narcotics for personal use as the likely source of 13 hepatitis C virus infections in an ED in Washington state. |
Washington, US |
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February 11, 2021 |
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| Thirty-Three Defendants Charged, and Multiple Defendants Plead Guilty To Racketeering Conspiracy In Nationwide Prescription Drug Diversion Case |
2980 Commers Dr Ste 200, Eagan, MN 55121 |
Minnesota Independent Cooperative |
February 11, 2021 |
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| Medication assistant pleads guilty to stealing pills. |
4171 Forest Pointe Cir, Avon, IN 46123 |
The Village of Avon Nursing Home |
February 11, 2021 |
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| A Tennessee Physician, Two Florida Clinic Owners, and a Kentucky Man Convicted for Roles in Tennessee-Based Pill Mill Operation |
Chattanooga, TN, USA |
Tennessee Pain Institute |
February 11, 2021 |
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| A Tennessee Physician, Two Florida Clinic Owners, and a Kentucky Man Convicted for Roles in Tennessee-Based Pill Mill Operation |
Chattanooga, TN, USA |
Tennessee Pain Institute |
February 11, 2021 |
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| Owner of Detroit-Area Health Care Clinics Pleads Guilty to Drug Diversion Scheme |
18597 West 10 Mile Road, Southfield, MI, USA |
Abyssinia Love Knot Physical Therapy L.L.C. |
February 11, 2021 |
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| Two medical assistants and a boyfriend to one of them are facing organized crime charges for allegedly forging more than 100 prescriptions for the pain-treating narcotic hydrocodone by using information from their Shenandoah, TX employer. |
129 Vision Park Blvd Shenandoah, TX 77384 |
Doctors' Offices |
February 9, 2021 |
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| A Lockhart, Texas police officer allegedly stole a controlled substance from a junior high where he had previously been a resource officer. |
500 City Line Rd, Lockhart, TX 78644, USA |
Lockhart Junior High School. |
February 9, 2021 |
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| Amsterdam Hospital to Pay Civil Penalty for Violations of the Controlled Substances Act |
232 Market St, Amsterdam, NY 12010 |
Amsterdam Hospital |
February 8, 2021 |
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| Two wholesale pharmaceutical companies charged in a scheme to sell millions of dollars in diverted pharmaceuticals to unwitting pharmacies and consumers. |
1829 W Drake Dr Ste 102 Tempe, AZ, 85283-4320 |
LLC Wholesale Supply, LLC |
January 28, 2021 |
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| Two CEOs of Wholesale Pharmaceutical Companies Indicted in Alleged Prescription Diversion Scheme |
917 Calle Trinity Carolina, PR, 00982-3412 United States |
Wholesalers Group Inc |
January 28, 2021 |
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| Florida paramedic and captain arrested for forging vaccine screening and consent forms for missing vaccines that were supposed to be given to firefighters. |
126 Cottonwood Dr, Davenport, FL 33837, USA |
Polk County Fire Rescue Station 38 |
January 26, 2021 |
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| A Physician’s Assistant employed through AMI expeditionary healthcare, a Reston based company, is being charged for stealing medications. The PA along with more american healthcare professionals went to the island of Curacao for a COVID-19 rapid response. |
J. H. J. Hamelbergweg, Willemstad, Curaçao |
CMC medical center |
October 21, 2020 |
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| 12,000 exposed to Hepatitis C in seven states after stealing fentanyl and refilling syringes with saline to be later injected into patients. |
5102 West Campbell Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85031 |
Maryvale Hospital Medical Center |
November 19, 2019 |
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| A massive federal opioid investigation in 2019 led to the arrests of doctors and medical professionals across West Tennessee. |
113 Hopkins Ave, Bells, TN 38006 |
Downtown Medical Clinic, PLLC |
November 19, 2019 |
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| In the Western District of Tennessee, Jeffrey Young, a nurse practitioner who called himself the Rock Doc, is accused in an indictment for trading opioids including the fentanyl patch for sex. He once piloted a reality show about his clinic, in Jackson. “Over approximately three years, (Young) allegedly prescribed approximately 500,000 hydrocodone pills, 300,000 oxycodone |
111 Stonebridge Blvd, Jackson, TN 38305 |
Pain Clinic |
November 19, 2019 |
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| In the Western District of Tennessee, Jeffrey Young, a nurse practitioner who called himself the Rock Doc, is accused in an indictment for trading opioids including the fentanyl patch for sex. He once piloted a reality show about his clinic, in Jackson. “Over approximately three years, (Young) allegedly prescribed approximately 500,000 hydrocodone pills, 300,000 oxycodone |
111 Stonebridge Blvd, Jackson, TN 38305 |
Pain Clinic |
November 19, 2019 |
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| A year-long investigation by federal drug agents has resulted in criminal charges against several physicians and other healthcare providers — including a Del Mar woman — accused of writing bogus prescriptions or selling painkillers and other drugs on the black market. Dubbed Operation Hypocritical Oath — a play on the Hippocratic oath taken by doctors |
Beverly Hills, CA |
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November 19, 2019 |
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| Dignity and Woodland Memorial were the focus of federal Drug Enforcement Agency and state Board of Pharmacy investigations after Dignity officials in April 2014 reported some 20,000 pills went missing from its outpatient pharmacy. Months later, in November 2014 |
1325 Cottonwood St, Woodland, CA 95695 |
Woodland Memorial Hospital |
November 19, 2019 |
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| In the Eastern District of Kentucky, a solo practitioner who operates a five-clinic family practice focusing on pain management allegedly billed Medicare for urine testing that was not done and for urine testing that was not medically necessary. See https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1155056/download |
515 N Bypass Rd, Pikeville, KY 41501 |
Interventional Pain Consultants, PLLC |
November 19, 2019 |
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| In the Eastern District of Kentucky, a dentist was charged for alleged conduct that included writing prescriptions for opioids that had no legitimate medical purpose and that were outside the usual course of professional practice, removing teeth unnecessarily, scheduling unnecessary follow-up appointments, and billing inappropriately for services. See https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1155051/download |
9759 KY-122, McDowell, KY 41647 |
Tackett Family Dentistry |
November 19, 2019 |
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| In the Eastern District of Kentucky, a doctor was charged for allegedly prescribing opioids to Facebook friends who would come to his home to pick up prescriptions, and for signing prescriptions for other persons based on messenger requests to his office manager, who then allegedly delivered the signed prescriptions in exchange for cash. See https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1154891/download |
5425 N Mayo Trail, Pikeville, KY 41501 |
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November 19, 2019 |
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| In the Middle District of Tennessee, Dr. Bowdoin G. Smith, who was a doctor of osteopathic medicine licensed by the State of Tennessee Department of Health, Board of Osteopathic Examination in August 1987, consented in October 2012 to prescribing pain medication when it wasn’t medically necessary. His license was placed on probation for three years. |
9 Maggart Cir, Carthage, TN 37030 |
Dr. Bowdoin G. Smith |
November 19, 2019 |
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| In the Middle District of Tennessee, Dr. Darrel R. Rinehart, an internist, is accused of routinely prescribing “highly addictive opioids” including morphine sulfate, hydrocodone, oxycodone and extroamphetamine for patients without a legitimate medical purpose. The state medical board suspended him in November 2018 through May 2019, when his license would expire. A grand jury investigation |
1114 W 7th St, Columbia, TN 38401 |
Core Physicians |
November 19, 2019 |
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| In the Middle District of Tennessee, Dr. Lawrence Valdez, an emergency specialist licensed with the Tennessee health department’s Board of Examiners, is accused in an indictment of prescribing oxycodone and oxymorphone, among other medications, for his patients outside the usual course of professional practice 12 times between June 2016 and March 2017. See https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1155091/download |
1411 W Baddour Pkwy Lebanon, TN 37087 |
Dr. Lawrence Valdez |
November 19, 2019 |
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