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Mahir Shah, Fort Mill Psychiatrist, charged with forging prescriptions
WSOCTV.COM Fort Mill doctor accused of forging prescriptions By Greg Suskin November 1, 2019 Psychiatrist Mahir Shah FORT MILL, S.C. - A Fort Mill doctor was arrested Wednesday and charged with forging prescriptions for patients at his psychiatry practice. Dr. Mahir Shah, 52, is facing multiple charges, including forging prescriptions and violating state drug laws. Shah owns Integrity Behavioral Health off Highway 160. An employee at his office said Shah was at work Thursday after being released from jail on a $1,000 bond. Channel 9's South Carolina bureau reporter Greg Suskin sorted through more than 20 separate warrants [...]
Nikolai Kaklyugin, Krasnodar Psychiatrist, arrested on drug charges
Meduza Corrupt former cop and anti-Maidan doctor face off against rehab expert accused of cultism in latest Russian drug controversy October 22, 2019 -- Excerpt Psychiatrist Nikolai Kaklyugin Psychiatric drug expert Nikolai Kaklyugin was arrested on the evening of October 19, 2018, in Rostov-on-Don. Journalists reported that between 10 and 15 grams of the synthetic cannabinoid K2 were found in his possession, and Kaklyugin was soon charged with large-scale attempted drug distribution. His father, Vladimir Kaklyugin, told Kommersant that investigators claimed they initiated the case against his son following an anonymous tip. -- End Excerpt
Psychiatrist Pradeep Mathur, Poland (Ohio) pleads guilty in drug case
WFMJ Poland psychiatrist sentenced after making plea deal By Mike Gauntner June 14, 2019 Psychiatrist Pradeep Mathur A Poland psychiatrist who was indicted for allegedly lying to obtain prescriptions for a family member has been sentenced after pleading guilty to reduced charges. Sixty-one-year-old Dr. Pradeep Mathur pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted deception to obtain and dangerous drug, attempted violation of drug database laws, and attempting the illegal processing of drug documents, which are all first degree misdemeanors reduced from felonies. Mathur was placed on probation for six months and fined $3,000. According to the indictment, Dr. Mathur allegedly [...]
Napa Psychiatrist Michael Cosgrove put on probation for seven years – stumbled to work drunk
Sacramento Bee California psychiatrist ‘depressed’ by Trump 2016 win stumbled to work drunk, board says By Jared Gilmour May 16, 2019 California’s medical board put a Napa psychiatrist on probation for seven years after he admitted to stumbling to work drunk the day after President Donald Trump’s election because he was “depressed” by the outcome, board records say. Dr. Michael Cosgrove, a staff psychiatrist at Napa State Hospital, showed up to work on Nov. 9, 2016, walking unsteadily and with difficulty keeping his balance — and a police officer who noticed Cosgrove’s behavior stopped him to ask if he’d been [...]
Bassam Awwa, New London psychiatrist, agrees to pay $3.3 million settlement to feds for overbilling drug tests
The Day New London psychiatrist to pay $3.3 million for overbilling of urine drug screen tests March 15, 2019 By Karen Florin Psychiatrist Bassam Awwa New London area psychiatrist Dr. Bassam Awwa, and his medical practice, Connecticut Behavioral Health Associates, have agreed to pay a $3.3 million settlement to the federal and state governments for overbilling Medicare and Medicaid for drug and alcohol urine tests. U.S. Attorney John H. Durham announced Friday that Awwa and his practice, known as CBHA, entered into a civil settlement agreement in which they will pay $3,382,004 to resolve allegations that they violated the [...]
Patients hope Fayetteville psychiatrist ‘never practices again’ after alleged prescription fraud
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Patients hope Fayetteville doctor ‘never practices again’ after alleged prescription fraud February 11, 2019 By Zachary Hansen Psychiatrist Ginari Price Former patients of a Fayette County psychiatrist said they weren’t surprised when she, her husband and two of her nurse practitioners were accused by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of an illegal prescription scheme. Now they’re hoping she never gets to practice medicine again. Dr. Ginari Price is accused of helping her husband and two nurse practitioners issue about 2,500 prescriptions, including opioids, through her practice at Psycare LLC off Devant Street while she was in jail [...]
Sridhar Yaratha, Virginia VA psychiatrist, in hot water In three states, Suspended in West Virginia and Iowa amid allegations of alcoholism and sexual misconduct – in Virginia involved in violence against patient
Virginian Pilot State doctor arranged for one mental health patient to attack another, federal judge rules By Scott Daugherty August 6, 2018 Psychiatrist Sridhar Yaratha A doctor at a state mental hospital arranged for one patient to attack another at least three times, a federal judge has ruled. In return, according to court testimony, the attacker was rewarded with extra food, alcohol and drugs. Following a seven-day trial in Norfolk, U.S. District Judge Henry C. Morgan Jr. ordered two former staff members of Central State Hospital in Petersburg to pay $385,000 in damages, plus interest. In a 31-page opinion, he [...]
Rose Moi, Norway psychiatrist, arrested
Rose Moi Journal Online P92.2-M worth of shabu seized by BOC, PDEA, NAIA-IADITG from arriving passenger at NAIA 3 By Itchie G. Cabayan October 29, 2022 -- Excerpt ... Norwegian tourist Rose Alex Moi, 59, widow, special psychiatrist and with address at Sarbuvollveien 1363, Hovik, Norway, was arrested for carrying one luggage containing 8.340 kilos of white crystalline substance suspected to be shabu with an estimated street value of P56,712,000, when she arrived onboard an Emirates Flight EK 0334 from Dubai from Johannesburg, South Africa.
Yogananda Ballekere, Victorian psychiatrist, self-prescribed
Yogananda Ballekere Canberra Times Psychiatrist fined for self-prescribing By Cassandra Morgan July 15, 2022 -- Excerpt A Victorian psychiatrist has been hit with a $15,000 fine and suspended from practising for three months for self-prescribing restricted medicines. The psychiatrist, Yogananda Ballekere, prescribed himself 13 different medicines on 38 occasions between January 2017 and August 2018, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal found. Falsely using another person's name, he also self-prescribed medications in December 2014 and October 2016. A number of the medications were psychotropic and one, Clonazepam, is classed as a drug of dependence... He used a third party's [...]
Deborah Staite, UK Psychiatrist, drunk driver
Deborah Staite Daily Mail Psychiatrist who was in rush-hour car crash after drinking three bottles of wine is allowed to keep her job --Excerpt A psychiatrist who downed three bottles of wine before a head-on crash has been allowed to keep her job after she was deemed 'no risk' to patients. Dr Deborah Staite, 50, was uninsured and did not even have a driving licence at the time of the collision in 2020. She had failed to renew it after serving a previous ban for drink-driving, a tribunal heard... Excerpted from: Psychiatrist who was in rush-hour car crash after drinking [...]