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DEA acts to warn public of dangerous synthetic drug

 

WASHINGTON, DC – Responding to the imminent threat to public health and safety, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has placed U-47700 into Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, effective on November 14th. Emergency scheduling of dangerous drugs such as U-47700 on a temporary basis is one of the most significant tools […]

November 11th, 2016 | Tags: , | Category: Crime | Comments are closed

Doctor charged with illegal prescribing and health care fraud

HUNTSVILLE – Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged a former Huntsville physician, who was the nation’s highest Medicare prescriber of opioid painkillers at the height of his practice, with illegally prescribing controlled substances and with a health care fraud involving $9.5 million in unneeded and unused urine tests, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and […]

September 23rd, 2016 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Shoals Area News | Comments are closed