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A Mingo County doctor admitted to federal charges that she provided patients she did not examine with prescription painkiller medication.
Diane E. Shafer, 60, pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to misuse her Drug Enforcement Administration Registration number. The plea is the result of a federal investigation that began three years ago, examining Shaffer's doling out of more than 118,000 prescriptions since 2003.
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Justice, again in the stipulation, confessed that he routinely directed nurse practitioners and physician assistants to use a physician's Drug Enforcement Administration number to prescribe 30-day supplies of drugs, including the painkiller hydrocodone and anti-anxiety drug alprazolam, which is sold under the brand name Xanax, among others.
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... Register: February 24, 2011 (Volume 76, Number 37). Notices. Page 10391-10392. From the Federal R...
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Justice, again in the stipulation, confessed that he routinely directed nurse practitioners and physician assistants to use a physician's Drug Enforcement Administration number to prescribe 30-day supplies of drugs, including the painkiller hydrocodone and anti-anxiety drug alprazolam, which is sold under the brand name Xanax, among others.
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Robert A. Raich, Oakland, CA, David M. Michael, San Francisco, CA, Randy Barnett, Boston, MA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
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A Boone County doctor was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison Tuesday for his role in a scheme to illegally sell hundreds of thousands of diet pills.
Brian J. McDevitt, 46, of Turtle Creek, pleaded guilty in January to conspiring to allow other people to use his Drug Enforcement Administration registration number to prescribe the diet drug phentermine at clinics in Huntington, Varney and Chapmanville.
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A first-time patient at a Wayne County pain clinic was found dead two days after a nurse practitioner illegally prescribed almost 100 hydrocodone pills in 2008.
This revelation came Friday as Charleston physician Augusto T. Abad pleaded guilty in federal court to allowing staff at Justice Medical Clinic to use his Drug Enforcement Administration registration number to prescribe drugs and participating in a scheme to defraud Medicare.
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LOS ANGELES - A maker of the potent anesthetic propofol found in Michael Jackson's home has been contacted by federal officials investigating the pop star's death and has recalled tens of thousands of vials of the drug after two tainted lots sickened dozens of patients.
There is no apparent connection between the bacterial contamination that prompted the recall and Jackson's death on June 25, Teva Pharmaceuticals spokeswoman Denise Bradley told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The tracking number on the tainted lots was different from the number on a vial that Drug Enforcement Administration investigators told the company was found at Jackson's home, she said.
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...CHAPTER I: FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUE...'s State license or authorization number, or, where a scheduled drug product is requested, the practitioner's Drug Enforcement Administration number;. (iii) The proprietary or e...
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A Charleston doctor is prepared to plead guilty in federal court as part of a probe into a Mingo County pain clinic, after he allegedly let unauthorized personnel issue prescriptions under his registration number.
On Friday, federal prosecutors filed a two-count information against Dr. Augusto T. Abad, accusing the physician of participating in a scheme to defraud Medicare and conspiring to allow nurse practitioners and physician assistants at Justice Medical Clinic to use his Drug Enforcement Administration registration number.