Texas doctor convicted for illegally distributing 1 million opioid pills in Houston 'pill mill' scheme
Marino was paid more than $400,000 in less than a year for prescriptions that prosecutors said lacked a legitimate medical purpose.
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Texas Doctor Found Guilty for Illegally Distributing Over 1 Million Pills of Opioids
A federal jury in Texas found a physician guilty of unlawfully distributing over a million pills of opioids and other controlled substances from a Houston-area clinic that operated as a pill mill, the Justice Department announced Monday. Dr. Barbara Marino, 65, of Tomball, was the sole prescribing physician at Angels Clinica, where she prescribed oxycodone, hydrocodone, and the muscle relaxer carisoprodol despite no legitimate medical purpose. T…
Exclusive: Trump administration claims another scalp in war on fraud — this time, a Texas pill-pusher
Scores of individuals were indicted during the first Trump administration for their involvement in a network of "pill mill" clinics — operations that diverted millions of oxycodone, hydrocodone, and carisoprodol pills with the help of health care professionals evidently eager to endanger public health to make a quick buck.The current administration, which has significantly ramped up its fraud crackdown, has delivered one of the participants in t…
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