PSYCH DRUGS
Alfred Ramirez, NY Psychiatrist, Arrested
Alfred Ramirez Press Release Doctor Arrested For Illegal Distribution Of More Than Ten Thousand Oxycodone Pills, Resulting In One Known Death Thursday, October 1, 2015 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James A. Hunt, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), and William J. Bratton, Commissioner of the New York Police Department (“NYPD”), announced the unsealing of a Complaint against a doctor and a co-conspirator who are alleged to have participated in a drug distribution [...]
Mark Greenbain, Michigan Psychiatrist, sentenced
Mark Greenbain Propublica ‘Let the Crime Spree Begin’: How Fraud Flourishes in Medicare’s Drug Plan --Excerpt In early 2011, federal investigators wiretapped the phones of Babubhai Patel, the owner of several Detroit-area pharmacies. They suspected him of improperly dispensing narcotics and other controlled drugs. The investigators learned that Patel wasn’t just peddling painkillers. The 51-year-old pharmacist had a stable of doctors willing to write Part D prescriptions for any drug he wanted, any time he wanted. In return, the doctors got cash, a flock of new patients and, in at least one case, a down payment for an office building, [...]
David Gudeman, California Psychiatrist, license revoked
Ventura County Star Medical board revokes Simi Valley psychiatrist's license --Excerpt State regulators have told a Simi Valley psychiatrist he can no longer practice medicine and that his request for a rehearing has been denied, an attorney said Monday. The Medical Board of California agreed in October to an administrative judge’s ruling that Dr. David Gudeman’s license should be revoked because he negligently prescribed painkillers and kept inadequate records. That decision was put on hold when Gudeman challenged it by requesting a review. But the delay ended Friday. James Studer, Gudeman’s lawyer, said he was told Monday that the [...]
James Cocores, Boca Raton Psychiatrist, Arrested
WPBF Doctor jailed, accused of writing unlawful prescriptions --Excerpt BOCA RATON, Fla. — Patients coming to see Dr. James Cocores will be disappointed to discover he's not in his Boca Raton office Friday. Instead, the psychiatrist is in jail. Cocores was arrested late Thursday and taken to the Palm Beach County Jail on charges of trafficking in opium and writing an unlawful prescription for at least $1,000 worth of dangerous drugs. Boca Raton police said an undercover officer posing as a patient sought prescription medication and counseling for a traumatic event. Police said Cocores prescribed multiple medications to her, [...]
Leonard Friedman, Mass. Psychiatrist, arrested
Leonard Friedman Boston Globe Middleton psychiatrist arrested By Julie Balise July 14, 2010 -- Excerpt A Middleton psychiatrist was arrested yesterday morning and charged with writing prescriptions for cash payments. Leonard Friedman, 73, was held on $50,000 bail and faces 14 counts of issuing prescriptions for Class B and Class C substances, according to a statement from Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s office. The crimes are punishable by up to 10 years in prison for Class B substances or five years for Class C substances. “A doctor who trades addictive drugs for cash makes a mockery of the [...]
Psychiatrist Sohail Punjwani Warned by FDA
Psychiatrist Sohail Punjwani The Miami Herald FDA warns psychiatrist who treated dead foster child By Carol Marbin Miller March 16, 2010 -- Excerpt A South Florida psychiatrist who was treating a 7-year-old foster child before the boy committed suicide last year has received a warning from federal drug regulators who say he failed ``to protect the rights, safety and welfare'' of children enrolled in clinical drug trials. In a strongly worded letter dated Feb. 4, regulators at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Dr. Sohail Punjwani over-medicated children who were enrolled in clinical trials for undisclosed drugs. One [...]
Igor Magier, Chesapeake psychiatrist, license revoked
Igor Magier The Virginian Pilot State board strips psychiatrist of license after series of run-ins By Elizabeth Simpson March 03, 2010 -- Excerpt A Chesapeake psychiatrist who was first investigated for improperly prescribing drugs more than two decades ago has lost his medical license. The Virginia Board of Medicine's decision last week to revoke the license of Igor Magier, who once had a practice on Cedar Lakes Drive, was unusual. In 2009, the board took this action against only three of the 31,200 medical doctors licensed in the state. Magier was first put on probation by the board [...]
Tom Onen, English Psychiatrist, Struck Off
Tom Onen The Independent Psychiatrist struck off for overprescribing to addicts --Excerpt A Psychiatrist was struck off the medical register yesterday for prescribing "exceptionally large quantities" of controlled drugs to patients at his private addiction clinic. In a damning ruling, the General Medical Committee said that Dr Tom Onen had shown a "reckless disregard" for the safety of his patients, two of whom died after receiving prescriptions at his south London surgery. The GMC had been told that addicts from across the south of England travelled to the clinic to take advantage of the doctor's lax prescription policy. The extent [...]
Velma Powell, College Park psychiatrist, sentenced
Velma Powell The Washington Post College Park Psychiatrist, 2 Aides Sentenced in Prescription Case By Paul W. Valentine May 11, 1990 -- Excerpt A College Park psychiatrist and two of her assistants have been sentenced on charges of improperly prescribing drugs to scores of patients. A social worker and an unlicensed therapist working for the psychiatrist, Velma E.L. Powell, illegally wrote prescriptions on slips signed in advance by Powell, prosecutors said. The assistants also switched patients' medications and dosages for powerful tranquilizers and pain killers such as Valium and Demerol, often with little supervision by Powell, according to the prosecutors. [...]