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Eastern Kentucky pain clinic owners plead guilty to pill conspiracy

Two Eastern Kentucky pain clinic owners will be sentenced in September after admitting in federal court they conspired with doctors to illegally dispense more than 50,000 prescription pills, officials said Friday in a press release.

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PILL PIPELINE

Ohio prescription clinic opens in former pill mill

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — A new for-profit, cash-only drug clinic that uses medicine to treat painkiller addicts is raising concerns in a county known as an epicenter of Ohio's prescription painkiller epidemic.
PILL PIPELINE

Pikeville doctor who prescribed pain pills to another doctor agrees to restrictions

Dr. William T. Gaunt, the second of two doctors who improperly prescribed pain pills to each other at Pikeville Medical Center, has agreed to prescribing restrictions, according to an order released by the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure.
PILL PIPELINE

Medical board suspends Pikeville pathologist's license

A Pikeville pathologist has been suspended by the state medical board for allegedly prescribed pain pills and other medications for people he had never seen. The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure issued an emergency suspension of Dr. James A. Dennis on Aug. 17.
FAYETTE COUNTY

Five federal indictments describe schemes to funnel pills to Eastern Kentucky

Unscrupulous pain-clinic owners, doctors and pharmacy workers took part in schemes to funnel hundreds of thousands of pills to the black market in Eastern Kentucky, federal grand juries have charged.
PILL PIPELINE

Pain clinic owner sentenced to 15 years

A Louisiana businessman convicted of distributing oxycodone and methadone pills in Eastern Kentucky by using clinics to prescribe the drugs to bogus patients was sentenced in Lexington Thursday to 15 years in federal prison.
MEDICINE

New prescription drug law prompts four pain clinics to close

Just a few days after a new state law went into effect to crack down on Kentucky's increasing problem with prescription drug abuse, four "pain management clinics" in the state have notified the state that they cannot comply with the new law and will close, Gov. Steve Beshear said Tuesday.
PILL PIPELINE

Clinic employee gets a year in prison in Eastern Kentucky pill-pipeline case

A clinic employee charged in a major Eastern Kentucky pill-pipeline case has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison.
PUBLIC SAFETY

Judge sentences pill distributor to 20 years in prison

A Floyd County man who faced the most serious charges in a historic Kentucky drug sweep in 2009 was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison.
MEDICINE

Lexington doctor, medical licensure board agree to restrictions

A Lexington doctor who once gave up his Kentucky medical license after the state accused him of overprescribing pain medication got his license back but has since had his practice restricted again because of allegations of similar issues.
PUBLIC SAFETY

Pill-pipeline trial opens against owner, 2 clinics

People from Eastern Kentucky came in droves to Michael Leman's pain clinics in Philadelphia and Cincinnati, prosecutors said at the start of Leman's trial in federal court.