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Middle Tennessee - Federal prosecutors have uncovered connections between previously unconnected cases involving opioid prescribers, revealing a troubling pattern in two small-town pharmacies in Middle Tennessee. In a recent court filing, prosecutors detailed how cases against multiple medical professionals are linked through Dale Hollow Pharmacy and Xpress Pharmacy, where millions of pills were dispensed for prescriptions deemed questionable.   Patients reportedly traveled long distanc...

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Tennessee physician Samson Orusa, MD was sentenced to seven years in prison .

Tennessee physician Samson Orusa, MD, was sentenced to 7 years in prison and fined over $1 million for over a dozen felony healthcare fraud charges.

Tennessee doctor Samson Orusa sentenced to seven years in prison and ordered to pay $1 million in restitution for 13 counts of healthcare fraud.

Doctors who face charges of overprescribing opioid medications rush to use a new Supreme Court decision as a defense.

Dr. Nelson Onaro conceded last summer that he’d written illegal prescriptions, although he said he was thinking only of his patients. From a tiny, brick clinic in Oklahoma, he doled out hundreds of opioid pills and dozens of fentanyl patches with no legitimate medical purpose.

A recent Supreme Court ruling has raised the bar to convict doctors accused of fueling the opioid crisis.

After a unanimous ruling from the high court, doctors who are accused of writing irresponsible prescriptions can go to trial with a new defense: It wasnt on purpose.