Posted by
REMEMBER JP on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:31:04 PM
These are not drugs that are being manufactured in someones kitchen or smuggled into the country ....they are coming from the pharmaceutical companies (drug king lords) and doctors (drug dealers) .....THEY MUST BE STOPPED
Drug doctors
02/10/2008
Four doctors in Northeastern Pennsylvania have been accused or convicted in recent years of illegally dispensing opiates.
Dr. Harry Alexanderian, 81, of West Pittston, dispensed painkillers from the basement of his Susquehanna Avenue home. In early 2003, state Attorney General Tom Corbett described Dr. Alexanderian as a very large purchaser of Tylenol with codeine. He was sentenced to two years’ probation in July 2005 on charges of illegally dispensing prescription narcotics and defrauding Medicaid. He gave up his medical license and forfeited $1.2 million in illegally earned proceeds to the state attorney general’s office.
Dr. Nicholas Lisnichy, 51, of South Abington Township, began serving six to 12 years in prison in February 2005 for illegally prescribing pain pills at his Dunmore office. Authorities have said his painkiller-dealing scheme brought in at least $2.5 million in five years. Dr. Lisnichy paid $173,000 to the state, ceded two Mercedes-Benz vehicles and $50,000 from the sale of his home to the state. In 2005, his medical license was suspended for 10 years.
Dr. Abul F. Hussain, 54, of Wilkes-Barre, was sentenced in January 2006 to three to 10 years in prison for illegally prescribing painkillers and defrauding Medicaid at his Kingston, Luzerne and Mount Pocono offices. He sold narcotics to undercover agents, acting as welfare recipients, without giving them medical examinations. His attorney has argued bipolar disorder clouded his judgment.
Dr. Gregory Salko, 63, of Carbondale, currently faces felony drug charges after county prosecutors said he prescribed unnecessary and powerful painkillers that caused four fatal overdoses. Investigators say Dr. Salko was one of Pennsylvania’s top 10 prescribers of fentanyl, methadone and oxycodone. The drug charges against Dr. Salko followed grand jury testimony last year from 14 of his former patients, along with the friends and family of four others who overdosed on pain medication. Dr. Salko is awaiting trial.
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