As Henry Sloan, body racked with pain, lay dying of pancreatic cancer at Oakleaf Village of Lexington, someone was stealing his pain pills. Hundreds of pills weren’t accounted for, said lawyers representing Sloan’s family. For months, the 75-year-old Columbia native, who had been a stalwart at his Shandon Methodist Church and a longtime human resources [...]
WASHINGTON COUNTY, TN (WJHL) – The number of state emergency license suspensions has skyrocketed since our Community Watchdog investigation exposed disciplinary delays that allowed nurses to find new jobs and keep their licenses while under investigation. Our review of Tennessee Board of Nursing disciplinary action records revealed just three emergency suspensions from October 2015 through [...]
ATLANTA (CBS46) - A pain clinic owner, an office manager who was also the wife of the owner, and two doctors have been sentenced for illegally prescribing painkillers to known addicts and drug dealers at three pain clinics in metropolitan Atlanta. Godfrey and Bona Ilonzo, as well as Dr. Nevorn Askari and Dr. William Richardson, [...]
Centre County, Pa. - Attorney General Josh Shapiro today announced criminal charges against a Centre County orthopedic surgeon who wrote 63 prescriptions for opioid pain medications and other drugs to a woman who was not his patient, but with whom he was having an affair. Dr. Kenneth L. Cherry, 58, of Balmoral Circle, State College, [...]
A doctor in New York City could face up to 20 years in prison after allegedly selling 4 million opioid pills to fake patients, according to New York’s Fox 5 News. Dr. David Taylor, a 74-year-old pain management specialist who allegedly ran a pill mill on Staten Island, was arrested by federal agents Thursday along [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Schuylkill County pharmacy assistant stands accused of stealing nearly 30,000 prescription pills, including more than 27,000 Oxycodone pills. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced the arrest Friday of Jamie Karmonick, 41, of Mahanoy City. She is charged with a felony – acquisition or obtaining possession of a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception [...]
Amber Rae Morton, 26, of Willmar, made her first appearance Wednesday in Kandiyohi County District Court on two felony charges of third-degree drug possession and one charge of felony theft. Morton was released on her own recognizance with orders to remain law-abiding and to stay in contact with probation and to not possess alcohol or [...]
As heroin deaths continue to climb, a deadlier threat emerges A trap house showing fentanyl and tools of the drug trade(Photo: Courtesy of the DEA) Fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opioid flooding the country from illicit labs in China, is claiming more victims than ever. Now, it's even threatening some of the very people working to stop [...]
The association representing Nova Scotia's veterinarians wants to find a way to keep pet owners from using opioids prescribed for their animals. Veterinarians can dispense whatever drugs they feel are appropriate for treating animals, and the registrar of the Nova Scotia Veterinary Medical Association calls the current lack of controls a "loose brick" in the medical system. [...]
BOSTON – A local paramedic pleaded guilty on Thursday in federal court in Boston to diverting fentanyl intended for patients for his own use. Joseph V. Amello, 50, of Rowley, pleaded guilty to one count of acquiring a controlled substance by deception and subterfuge and one count of tampering with a consumer product. U.S. District [...]