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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 shows that he’d provided hydrocodone repeatedly, from 2014-2016, to four patients who died.

See https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1155081/download

Dr. Rinehart has moved to Indiana and is practicing medicine in Indiana. See https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/investigations/2019/01/24/opioid-overdose-deaths-tennessee-doctor-darrel-rinehart-indiana/2452093002/