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NY Plays Whack-a-Mole with Pill Mills

Last week, Dr. Ernesto Lopez, from Long Island, New York, alongside his assistant and nurse practitioner were all arrested for a familiar scheme; they’re accused of operating several locations of their practices as pill mills. All three face 20 years in prison for writing what authorities say were millions of dollars worth of fake prescriptions

Melissa B2017-11-07T20:10:22+00:00Tags: addiction, arrests, corruption, diversion schemes, doctors, fentanyl, New York, Oxycontin, pill mills|

Synthetic Marijuana Approved, But Drugmaker Controversial

While the federal government has been relentlessly chasing down drugs that purport to be “fake marijuana”, one synthetic marijuana manufacturer has been given the green light to manufacture their own formula. Named Syndros, the drug meant as a treatment for AIDS-related anorexia and rid cancer patients of the nausea and vomiting they experience when undergoing

Melissa B2017-04-12T18:08:30+00:00Tags: arrests, fraud, Insys, law, marijuana, Subsys, Syndros, synthetic|

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