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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,010 posts)
Thu Oct 11, 2018, 08:53 PM Oct 2018

Millions of Unnecessary Opioid Pills Prescribed by 5 Doctors, Prosecutors Say

Five doctors in New York City have been charged with taking more than $5 million in return for prescribing millions of oxycodone pills to purported patients who had no legitimate medical need for them, according to indictments unsealed in federal court Thursday.

The series of indictments described noisy crowds of people standing in long lines at all hours, some with visible signs of drug addiction, at the Staten Island office of Dr. Carl Anderson, prompting neighbors to call the police.

Occasionally, ambulances were sent to treat the pill-seeking patients, the charges say.

Another of the doctors, Dante A. Cubangbang, of Manhattan, and his nurse practitioner prescribed 3.3 million pills that were paid for by Medicare and Medicaid over a three-year period — more than twice as many pills as the next highest prescriber in the state, one indictment shows.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/millions-of-unnecessary-opioid-pills-prescribed-by-5-doctors-prosecutors-say/ar-BBOeKDb?li=BBnbcA1

Rush Limbaugh's connection? He lives in New York.

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Millions of Unnecessary Opioid Pills Prescribed by 5 Doctors, Prosecutors Say (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2018 OP
No different than the mob. BeckyDem Oct 2018 #1
Rush lives in Florida. He didn't like paying New York taxes. Shrike47 Oct 2018 #2
Rush likes it a little stronger than oxycodone. Lochloosa Oct 2018 #3

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
1. No different than the mob.
Thu Oct 11, 2018, 08:57 PM
Oct 2018

Incredible.

The series of indictments described noisy crowds of people standing in long lines at all hours, some with visible signs of drug addiction, at the Staten Island office of Dr. Carl Anderson, prompting neighbors to call the police.

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