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5 doctors plead guilty in West Virginia in pain pill scheme

submitted by knightwarrior41 to Health 2.6 yearsSep 13, 2022 07:28:49 ago (+15/-0)     (abcnews.go.com)

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/doctors-plead-guilty-west-virginia-pain-pill-scheme-89778249#:~:text=CHARLESTON%2C%20W.Va.%20--%20Five%20doctors%20pleaded%20guilty%20in,for%20legitimate%20medical%20purposes%20from%202010%20to%202015.

Five doctors pleaded guilty in a pain pill prescription scheme involving clinics in West Virginia and Virginia, federal prosecutors said Monday.

The scheme was tied to the Hope Clinic and involved prescribing oxycodone and other controlled substances that weren’t for legitimate medical purposes from 2010 to 2015. Some prescriptions provided up to seven pills per day, and several Hope locations averaged 65 or more daily customers during a 10-hour workday with only one practitioner working, prosecutors said in a news release.


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[ - ] deleted 1 point 2.6 yearsSep 13, 2022 09:56:35 ago (+1/-0)

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[ - ] knightwarrior41 [op] 0 points 2.6 yearsSep 13, 2022 10:17:18 ago (+0/-0)

what you say its all true, my mother and father went through similar ordeal not long ago. the pain was unbelievable. mother tells me that its worse than childbirth

[ - ] PostWallHelena 1 point 2.6 yearsSep 13, 2022 09:03:40 ago (+1/-0)

Never trust the feds. Only white doctors targetted?

[ - ] usedoilanalysis 0 points 2.6 yearsSep 13, 2022 10:09:03 ago (+0/-0)

Probably weren't getting their cut.

[ - ] RedBarchetta 0 points 2.6 yearsSep 13, 2022 10:25:25 ago (+0/-0)

Cash only has no color preference. From what I understand it was ALL doctors operating these "Pain Centers."

[ - ] RedBarchetta 0 points 2.6 yearsSep 13, 2022 10:24:00 ago (+0/-0)

I had heard of stories of "Pain Centers" right next to pharmacys. You enter the pain center, the Pharma paid doctor issues you a Rx, you go next door. Welcome to the Monkey on your Back!