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SCOTUS: Prosecutors Must Prove “Subjective” Knowledge to Convict Doctors Under the Controlled Substances Act

On June 27, 2022, the United States Supreme Court clarified the “knowingly or intentionally” standard for criminal prosecutions against doctors accused of overprescribing addictive medications in violation of the Controlled...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Federal Prosecutions on the Rise for Physicians Prescribing Opioids

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A recent headline revealed that over 30 doctors, and multiple pharmacists and nurse practitioners in six different states were charged with federal crimes based on allegations of unlawful distribution of controlled substances...more

Jackson Walker

Opioids, Healthcare Enforcement, and Increased Scrutiny of Corporate Conduct for Criminal Prosecution

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The national opioid epidemic is almost unprecedented in every conceivable way—its catastrophic death toll, its broad effect on a wide swath of this country’s population, its rapid escalation (which is alleged to have been...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Another front in war on opioids: Criminal charges for Big Pharma execs, MDs

An estimated 400,000 Americans have died due to opioid drug overdoses between 1999 and 2017 — and the fatalities only are increasing. By 2025, according to expert forecasts, there will be 700,000 more opioid deaths....more

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