Dozens of medical professionals in five states, including doctors who allegedly traded prescriptions for sex, were charged with participating in a scheme in which they prescribed more than 32 million opioids and other dangerous narcotics.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Dozens of medical professionals in five states, including doctors who allegedly traded prescriptions for sex, were charged with participating in a scheme in which they prescribed more than 32 million opioids and other dangerous narcotics, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Several pharmacists and a doctor in Ohio who is alleged to have at one time been the highest prescriber of controlled substances in the state, are charged with operating an alleged “pill mill” in Dayton, Ohio. Between October 2015 and October 2017, the pharmacy allegedly dispensed more than 1.75 million pills.
A doctor in Alabama is accused of recruiting prostitutes and other young women with whom he had sexual relationships to become patients at his clinic, while simultaneously allowing them and their associates to abuse illicit drugs at his house, federal prosecutors said.
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