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in exchange for cash payments, Nkanga wrote thousands of oxycodone prescriptions for patients, some of whom displayed visible signs of drug addiction, without conducting any physical examination, or even seeing them in an examination room. Nkanga also wrote prescriptions in the names of patients who did not even visit his medical office. On one occasion, for instance, Nkanga asked a patient, “how many people are you representing today,” and then wrote prescriptions in the names of people, even though three were not present. Nkanga regularly prescribed over 100 oxycodone pills per patient per month until July 2018 when he reduced all patients’ monthly allotment, telling one patient he was “very worried” about scrutiny from law enforcement.