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A doctor working at a dermatologist’s office in Delray Beach wrote painkiller prescriptions in dead patients’ names and then filled them himself, authorities said.
Dr. Henry Blady, 62, of Highland Beach was arrested today on charges of drug trafficking, obtaining drugs by fraud and criminal use of dead persons’ information.
Blady would write oxycodone prescriptions for at least four patients and then visit pharmacies in southern Palm Beach County to fill them. He made various excuses to pharmacists about why the patients couldn’t fill them in person, according to an affidavit for his arrest.
Between July and September 2009, Blady ordered 4,000 oxycodone tablets, even though he’s not licensed by Florida to dispense drugs, the affidavit said.
After verifying that the patients’ whose names appeared on the prescriptions were dead, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s investigators searched Blady’s Delray Beach office at 400 E. Linton Blvd. There they found paperwork that was incorrectly filled out and a lack of accounting for the oxycodone orders.
Authorities arrested Blady at his Highland Beach home, where they found him carrying an oxycodone table, a syringe filled with an indeterminate substance and an elastic tourniquet. He was taken to the Palm Beach County Jail.
The arrest marked the first investigation of a new countywide task force formed to make prescription drug diversion cases.