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Dental Opioid Prescriptions Put Families at Risk of Overdose
Overdose rates are two and a half times higher among patients who filled a...
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New York Dentist Arrested for Illegally Dispensing Oxycodone
Vivian Letizia, a dentist in Stone Ridge, New York, was arrested on September 22...
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Dentist Pleads Guilty to Oxycodone Diversion
Christopher Kania of Portage, Wisconsin, has pleaded guilty to obtaining oxycodone by use of...
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More Than Half of Dental Opioid Prescriptions Exceed CDC Guidelines
About half of the opioid prescriptions written by dentists in the United States exceed...
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Dental Receptionist Sentenced to Prison for Forging Opioid Prescriptions
On October 28, Senior US District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo sentenced Belinda Dietrich...
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Dentist Sentenced to Eight and a Half Years in Prison for Opioid Conspiracy
A dentist in Virginia Beach has been sentenced to nearly eight and a half...
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US Dentists Prescribe 37 Times More Opioids Than English Dentists
Dentists in the United States write 37 times more opioid prescriptions than those practicing...
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Dentist Pleads Guilty to Running Oxycodone Conspiracy
Virginia Beach dentist Gary Hartman, 48, pleaded guilty on May 9 to conspiracy to...
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Walgreens Settles Fraud Cases for $269.2 Million
On January 22, 2019, the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) announced the settlement...
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Head and Neck Cancer Patients Face Greater Opioid Addiction Risks
While head and neck cancer patients often receive pain medications during recovery from surgery,...