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Kentucky Doctor Gets 100 Months for Over-Prescribing Pain Pills

A former doctor with offices in Louisville, Ky., and southern Indiana has been sentenced to 100 months in prison for unlawfully distributing prescription drugs. Jamie Guerrero agreed to pay $827,000 in restitution to victims as part of a January plea …

Tennessee Reports Increase in Opioid-Related Deaths in 2014

Statistics from the Tennessee Department of Health revealed that 1,263 Tennesseans died in 2014 from opioid overdoses despite measures designed to stop the addiction. In 2014, the state saw 97 more deaths caused by opioid overdoses than in 2013, The …

DEA ‘Operation Pilluted’ Nets 280 Drug Trafficking Arrests in 4 States

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and federal prosecutors have made 280 arrests in what they call an “unprecedented enforcement action” against doctors, pharmacies and pill mills for alleged trafficking and abuse of prescription drugs. The 15-month operation, dubbed Operation …

Commissioner: Opioid Drug Prescriptions Declining in Texas Work Comp System

Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Rod Bordelon told the Texas House Committee on Public Health that the number and cost of opioid drug prescriptions in the Texas workers’ compensation system has declined. Testifying before the committee on April 7, Bordelon …