Staffers in aided dental drug/fraud scam get probation
Three former dental office staffers accused of helping a Mercer County dentist illegally obtain prescription painkillers have been accepted into a...
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California AG seeks $3.5M to monitor prescriptions
Pain patients understand why California’s attorney general says he needs to raise $3.5 million to stop addicts and drug dealers who...
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Penn. pharmacist headed to prison over fraud charges
A former Beaver County pharmacist had been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for mail fraud and illegal drug...
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Penn. dentist accused of stealing client ins. info for painkillers
Farrell dentist Dr. Tamara J. Lowe faces 6 months to 2 years in jail, unless she can find a service to...
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Soldier in N.C. charged with drug diversion and fraud
A Fort Bragg soldier has been charged with forging prescriptions to get painkillers and getting reimbursed through medical insurance. Yvette Michelle...
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Two in Florida charged with drug diversion and fraud
An employee with one of the country’s biggest pharmacies was tipping off drug dealers looking for prescription pills and detectives with...
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Indiana doc charged with drug diversion and fraud
In January, Dr. Antoine Francis Cawog used credit cards to buy nearly 36,000 tablets of medicines, triggering concern among drug enforcement...
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California considering online drug-monitoring legislation
By next year, California health workers may be able to check any patient’s prescription drug history with the click of a...
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Maine’s drug-monitoring program under-utilized
Data released last week shows 154 people died in Maine from drug overdoses in 2007 and 86 percent of those deaths...
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Feds indict Oklahoma doc on drug and fraud charges
A 60-year-old Moore doctor, Can D. Phung, was indicted by a federal grand jury last Wednesday on 51 counts of illegally...
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