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Former Wichita doctor sentenced to decade in prison for opioid prescription scheme
Wichita Eagle via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA former Wichita physician was sentenced Friday to a decade in prison for selling opioid...
Thousands of free opioid overdose reversal kits headed to Washington
The Columbian· 2 weeks agoWashington residents can now order free life-saving opioid overdose reversal kits through the mail,...
Which states have the worst substance abuse problems?
Stacker via AOL· 2 weeks agoThe recent rise of fentanyl has made the oxycodone crisis seem tame. This synthetic opioid is...
New York physician sentenced for illegally prescribing opioids
Becker's ASC Review· 2 weeks agoA physician in East Norwich, N.Y., has been ordered to close his practice and surrender his license for illegal opioid prescription, News 12 Long Island ...
States that most often prescribe opioids to Medicaid patients
The State· 6 days agoOphelia explored how U.S. prescription opioid dispense rates in 2021 varied by state using Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data.
Nassau County doctor convicted of illegally prescribing around 93,000 mg of oxycodone to 1 patient
News 12· 2 weeks agoTeam 12 Investigates uncovered that Alan Nelson, of East Norwich, repeatedly prescribed at least 92,700 milligrams of oxycodone to a single patient between 2020 and ...
CT doctor gets prison for health care fraud. He sold $1M+ in drugs, wanted to ‘hire a hitman’
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 5 days agoA Connecticut internist accused of passing out, and in one case, selling more than $1 million in highly addictive painkillers to patients and then billing ...
Following plea agreement, former Wichita doctor sentenced to 10 years for operating pill mill
KWCH· 4 days agoFollowing an appeal to an initial life sentence and a plea agreement with the federal government, a...
Former Wallingford doctor sentenced for opioid scheme
WTNH-TV New Haven· 5 days agoWALLINGFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — U.S. States Attorney Vanessa Roberts Avery announced on Wednesday that...
‘Fentanyl is everywhere.’ Wake schools wants to be ready to treat opioid overdoses.
The News & Observer· 7 days agoEvery Wake County school will have at least three employees trained in how to administer Naloxone to treat a suspected opioid overdose.