(Source: WBTV/File) CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Multiple people accused of prescription fraud were taken into custody Wednesday night after crashing a vehicle while running from police. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say they were called to a prescription fraud report at the Walgreens in the 9400 block of Mt. Holly-Huntersville Road around 8:40 p.m. Police say four people [...]
After 70 years as a Santa Barbara staple, L.M. Caldwell Pharmacist is shutting its doors this week after the state’s Board of Pharmacy accused the company of routinely oversupplying powerful painkillers. Since taking over his father’s business in 1967, Peter Caldwell has run two shops on State and Pueblo streets. They were the last of the [...]
KUSA - A new Colorado bill would require more than 160,000 medical professionals to get background checks based on their fingerprints in order to practice medicine in the state. The bill is called the Patient Safety Act of 2017 and would require the background checks for doctors and nurses who prescribe medication. The federal background [...]
JOHN RABY, Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A major California-based drug wholesaler has agreed to pay $150 million to settle allegations that it failed to detect and report pharmacies' suspicious orders of prescription pain pills, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The settlement commits San Francisco-based McKesson Corp. to a multi-year suspension of sales of controlled [...]
A local pharmacist has been charged with stealing thousands of dollars worth of prescriptions from a sample closet at Heritage Pharmacy, located at North Ninth Street in Bismarck. Terry Kristensen, 63, is charged with 10 counts of felony theft, each carrying a maximum fine of $10,000 and five years in prison. On Tuesday, he appeared [...]
Oxycodone pills and other prescription drug bottles.(Photo: Illustration/Thomas E. Franklin/NorthJersey.com) One of the largest pharmaceutical distributors in the nation will pay $150 million and halt sales at distribution centers in four states for turning a “blind eye” to suspicious orders of prescription painkillers that are at the core of the nationwide opioid abuse epidemic, authorities [...]
A NURSE strolled out of court to loud applause after being acquitted of forging bogus hospital records to snatch sedatives. A jury of seven men and five women found Leona Bellhouse not guilty of pinching a ‘large quantity’ of midazolam while she was working at the John Radcliffe’s Hospital’s gynaecology department. Sighs of relief were [...]
A Lancashire nurse who was arrested in 2015 after she was found guilty of stealing and distributing prescription drugs received her jail sentence Monday. Amie Heller, 30, will serve three years and eight months after she admitted to stealing and selling zopilone, tramadol, dihydrocodeine and codeine from the Royal Blackburn Hospital where she worked. The [...]
PHOENIX – In an unrelenting quest for painkillers, Arizona pill seekers embark on almost daily missions to obtain fake or stolen prescriptions and shop their pain among doctors. Sometimes, pharmacists report, patients try to get “multiple, multiple narcotic” prescriptions from “multiple, multiple doctors.” Though the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy and lawmakers have built ways [...]
JACKSON COUNTY, MS (WLOX) - A Vancleave woman and her husband have been sentenced to prison for the parts they played in a prescription fraud and embezzlement scheme involving a now bankrupt cancer treatment center. A Jackson County jury found Sherrie Bennett, 57, guilty on 14 counts of distributing prescription drugs and bankruptcy fraud on [...]