CA doctor pleads guilty to illegally prescribing 120K opioid pills over 6 years
foxnews.comA Southern California doctor has pleaded guilty to writing prescriptions for more than 120,000 opioid pills over a six-year span, including to an impaired driver who struck and killed a bicyclist, federal prosecutors said.
In his plea agreement, Dr. Dzung Ahn Pham of Tustin admitted distributing the pills without a legitimate medical purpose in exchange for cash and insurance payments.
He pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, the Orange County Register reported. Pham faces up to 20 years in federal prison when he is sentenced on Jan.
6, 2023, the newspaper said. From Jan. 1, 2013 and Dec. 17, 2018, Pham wrote prescriptions for around 53,000 Oxycodone pills, 68,000 hydrocodone pills and 29,000 pills of amphetamine salts using 18 different patient names, according to his plea agreement.
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