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Rochester Physician Assistant Pleads Guilty To Dispensing Oxycodone Outside The Scope Of Professional Practice (United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of New York)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Jun 2016
During that time period, the defendant provided Patient A with 16 prescriptions for oxycodone, totaling approximately 30 grams, outside the scope of his professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose ... During that time period, the defendant provided Patient B with nine prescriptions for oxycodone, totaling approximately 26 grams, outside the scope of his professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose....

I’m a doctor. I worry every time I prescribe painkillers to a patient.

Edit Vox 06 Jun 2016
"Please, I need my Oxycodone!" my patient, M, pleaded with me ... It was a snowy afternoon in clinic, and M and I were in the midst of a debate. Oxycodone is an opioid medication, and, like other painkillers such as Oxycontin, Percocet, and Vicodin, it carries a significant risk of abuse ... I inherited M from another physician who left the practice, and when he became my patient, he was already on a relatively high dose of Oxycodone....

Bond set for Clayton psychiatrist Nagareddy accused in patients’ deaths

Edit Atlanta Journal 06 Jun 2016
The three died of overdoses after allegedly going to Nagareddy for prescriptions for hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone, fentanyl and amphetamine salts, powerful and highly addictive drugs ... ....

10 Defendants in Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced (United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Tennessee)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Jun 2016
(Source. United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Tennessee) ... Edward L. Stanton III, U.S ... According to information presented in court, between August 2014 and June 2015, the defendants conspired with each other to distribute large quantities of oxycodone, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana ... 200 months ... 120 months ... A conservative estimate revealed that Burton distributed over 800 kilograms of marijuana and oxycodone....

Turner Bill to Limit Opioid Prescriptions to Seven Days Clears Committee (NJ Senate Democrats)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Jun 2016
(Source. NJ Senate Democrats) For Release. Immediately June 6, 2016 Contact. Rich Wisniewski (609) 847-3700. TRENTON - Legislation sponsored by Senator Shirley K. Turner restricting initial prescriptions for opioid drugs to a seven day supply cleared the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee today ... Medications that fall within this class include hydrocodone (e.g., Vicodin), oxycodone (e.g., OxyContin, Percocet)....

Opioids hitting Collier, Lee hard

Edit Naples Daily News 05 Jun 2016
There are so many places where this column could begin. With the startling increase in opioid use among the area's homeless ... Abuse of prescription opioids like oxycodone and nonprescription cousins such as heroin, is a nationwide crisis that is being felt acutely right here ... The increase roughly parallels the state's crackdown on pill mills, where doctors would notoriously overprescribe painkillers such as oxycodone ... On June 16, Dr ... ....

Teva Painkiller Resists Snorting, Injection Abuse, FDA Staff Say

Edit Bloomberg 04 Jun 2016
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.’s hydrocodone painkiller works to deter people who might try to crush the drug and snort or inject it to get high, U.S. regulators said ... Pfizer Inc.’s oxycodone, which the company also wants to label as abuse-deterrent, will face the advisory panel on Wednesday. The Pfizer capsules combine oxycodone with naltrexone, which is used to reverse the effects of opioids ... Other Opioids ... ....

Overdoses lead to warnings about opioid painkillers such as Oxycontin, Fentanyl

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 04 Jun 2016
Endone, a short-acting version of the synthetic opioid oxycodone hydrochloride, and Targin, a long-acting form ... Meanwhile, codeine, a weak opioid sold over the counter in the form of painkillers such as Panadeine and Nurofen Plus, was implicated in more overdose deaths than those containing the stronger oxycodone....

Clifton pharmacist convicted in plot to divert painkillers

Edit North Jersey 03 Jun 2016
Srinivasa Raju, 44, was convicted Thursday in Superior Court in Morristown of third-degree conspiracy and distribution of oxycodone, following a three-week trial in which prosecutors alleged that Raju gave out the drugs to individuals who obtained prescriptions from a Morris County doctor without being treated or examined ... ....

Parents indicted in drowning of 2-year-old daughter in neighbor's pool

Edit NJ dot com 03 Jun 2016
Police were called when the toddler's older sister was running down the street saying her baby sister was missing, authorities said ... Brigitte McCarthy and Robert Trella Jr ... 17 death of their daughter. Parents charged after toddler drowns in neighbor's pool. The grand jury also charged each of them with possession of heroin, suboxone and oxycodone ... ....

Frederick Police Make Arrest for Possession of a Schedule II Drug (SCT) (City of Frederick, MD)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
(Source. City of Frederick, MD) ... Members of the Street Crimes Team conducted a traffic stop. During the traffic stop, Disney was placed under arrest. Search incident to arrest revealed Disney had a small plastic baggie containing six (6) blue tablets. The tablets were found to be Oxycodone Hydrochloride ... Charged.....

Police - Media Releases 6/3/2016 Precinct-Based Undercover Detectives Charged 100 Persons This Week (City of Nashville, TN)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
(Source. City of Nashville, TN). 6/3/2016. June 3, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ... Midtown Hills Precinct detectives charged 7 persons as the result of investigations on Thompson Lane, Old Hickory Boulevard, Nolensville Pike, and Trousdale Lane ... Seized were two grams of heroin, 16.5 grams of marijuana, 123.5 Xanax pills, 68 Percocet pills, 88 oxycodone pills, 55 morphine pills, one Fentanyl patch, two vehicles, and three handguns ... ### ... (noodl....

Physician assistant accused of illegally distributing oxycodone

Edit Democrat and Chronicle 03 Jun 2016
A local physician's assistant is accused of illegally giving oxycodone to two individuals ... ....
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