Indian-American From West Virginia Tied to HOPE Clinic Pleads Guilty in Opioid Overdose Case

Indian-American from West Virginia tied to HOPE clinic pleads guilty in Opioid overdose case

Indian American physician Dr. Sanjay Mehta, 57, of Shady Spring, West Virginia, has pleaded guilty to three counts of aiding and abetting the acquisition of controlled substances by fraud, after two of his patients died from opioid overdoses.According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia, Mehta unlawfully prescribed opioids while working at HOPE Clinic (Hitech Opioid Pharmachovigilance Expertise), a supposed p…

Indian American physician pleads guilty to federal drug crimes

Indian American physician Sanjay Mehta has pleaded guilty to three counts of aiding and abetting obtaining a controlled substance by fraud after two of his customers died of opioid overdoses.   Mehta, 57, of Shady Spring admitted to unlawful prescription practices at HOPE (Hitech Opioid Pharmachovigilance Expertise) Clinic, a purported pain management clinic that operated in Beckley, Beaver and Charleston, West Virginia, and Wytheville, Virginia…