A Wagram woman was recently arrested in connection with multiple incidents of prescription fraud. Dorothy Ellis McNeill, 68, is charged with four counts of obtaining a schedule II controlled substance by fraud and four counts of felony possession of a Schedule II controlled-substance. She is accused of providing false information to Moore County health care providers [...]
NORTH HUNTINGDON, Pa. — A nurse practitioner is charged with writing more than 50 fraudulent prescriptions for family and friends who were not under her care. Advertisement Amy Ann Busch, 49, of Jeannette, was arraigned Tuesday afternoon in five separate criminal cases. She was released on $50,000 unsecured bond. Investigators from North Huntingdon police, the [...]
A former Huntsville doctor, who was the nation's highest Medicare prescriber of opioid painkillers, was sentenced today to serve 15 years in federal prison. Shelinder Aggarwal pleaded guilty late last year to illegally prescribing controlled substances and conducting at least $9.5 million in health care fraud. The fraud included millions in unneeded and unused urine [...]
MASON CITY | A woman accused of stealing narcotics from a Mason City nursing home while she was employed there as a nurse was given a deferred judgment Monday. Briana Hesse, 28, Osage, a former Mason City resident, was put on probation for three years for felony prohibited acts. A $1,000 civil penalty was suspended, [...]
New Holland Police have issued an arrest warrant for a 30-year-old Ephrata accused of stealing oxycodone from patients at an area retirement home. Natalie M. Sands took the pills from patients and kept them for her own use, New Holland police said in a news release. She is accused of taking the medication from four [...]
Lebanon — A Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center anesthesiologist accused of stealing powerful pain drugs for his personal use and falsifying medical records has voluntarily stopped practicing medicine and entered a program for doctors with addiction, alcohol and other behavioral problems. Dr. Christopher Manfred’s agreement, on Jan. 31, to seek treatment came one day after the New [...]
By Pat Anson, Editor We hear often about the recreational or “non-medical” use of prescription drugs, particularly opioids, in the United States and Canada. But a new study published in the journal World Psychiatry suggests the abuse and misuse of opioids is a problem around the world. Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public [...]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The lawyer representing the town of Richwood in their suit against a number of drug wholesalers believes this is just the beginning of legal action by West Virginia municipalities. “We intend to sue every bad actor–either pharmacist or physician,” Charleston-based attorney Rusty Webb said. “And when I say that, I don’t mean [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- - Attorneys for nine patients have filed a lawsuit against Iowa Methodist Medical Center, blaming the hospital for a pharmacy tech's theft of potent painkillers from hundreds of vials. The lawsuit accuses the hospital of being negligent in its supervision of the pharmacy tech who stole fentanyl and Dilaudid during [...]
SANFORD – On Aug. 24 a drug agent spotted Lt. Jason Bender of the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office in a manager’s office, reaching into a safe where cocaine and other illegal drugs were locked up. Later that day, when managers checked the safe, they discovered more than 500 pain pills missing. Bender was a 23-year [...]