A Maine doctor became the first to be arrested this week by the New England Prescription Opioid Strike Force for allegedly prescribing drugs without justification.
said Norris allegedly prescribed opioids and other controlled substances outside of her professional practice and without a medical purpose.
FILE - This Aug. 29, 2018, file photo shows an arrangement of prescription oxycodone pills in New York. U.S. health officials are again warning doctors against abandoning chronic pain patients by abruptly stopping their opioid prescriptions. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services instead urged doctors Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, to share such decisions with patients.
She was released from custody, but one of the conditions of Norris’s release is that she cannot prescribe any Schedule II-V controlled substances. Members of the FBI, Department of Health and Human Services Offices of the Inspector General, and DEA are investigating Norris’s case.Additionally, Principal Assistant Deputy Chief Kilby Macfadden and Trial Attorneys Patrick Queenan and Thomas Campbell of the Criminal Division’s Fraud section are prosecuting the case.
The NEPO Strike Force says its mission is to locate, investigate, and prosecute health care fraud schemes in New England and those who engage in the illegal distribution of prescription opioids.Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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