Post by pavel on Apr 21, 2016 4:16:09 GMT -6
A Conway physician pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of conspiring to distribute hydrocodone and other controlled substances by issuing fake prescriptions.
Jerry Scott Reifeiss, 61, admitted to U.S. District Judge James Moody Jr. that he illegally prescribed 110,044 10mg hydrocodone tablets between March 11, 2015, and May 20, 2015, the period he worked at the KJ Medical Clinic in West Little Rock.
Reifeiss was one of nine people that U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents simultaneously arrested on May 20, 2015, at the clinic and the nearby Bowman Curve Pharmacy. The arrests were part of a regional investigation into prescription-drug abuse called "Operation Pillution," described as the agency's largest-ever prescription-drug operation in the South.
U.S. Attorney Chris Thyer said the medical clinic, which had previously been called the Artex Medical Clinic, had been operating as a "pill mill," where people could obtain prescriptions for narcotics without legitimate medical needs.
Read more: www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/apr/21/doctor-pleads-guilty-in-rx-case-2016042/?latest
Jerry Scott Reifeiss, 61, admitted to U.S. District Judge James Moody Jr. that he illegally prescribed 110,044 10mg hydrocodone tablets between March 11, 2015, and May 20, 2015, the period he worked at the KJ Medical Clinic in West Little Rock.
Reifeiss was one of nine people that U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents simultaneously arrested on May 20, 2015, at the clinic and the nearby Bowman Curve Pharmacy. The arrests were part of a regional investigation into prescription-drug abuse called "Operation Pillution," described as the agency's largest-ever prescription-drug operation in the South.
U.S. Attorney Chris Thyer said the medical clinic, which had previously been called the Artex Medical Clinic, had been operating as a "pill mill," where people could obtain prescriptions for narcotics without legitimate medical needs.
Read more: www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/apr/21/doctor-pleads-guilty-in-rx-case-2016042/?latest