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Dental Opioid Prescriptions Put Families at Risk of Overdose

Overdose rates are two and a half times higher among patients who filled a...

New York Dentist Arrested for Illegally Dispensing Oxycodone

Vivian Letizia, a dentist in Stone Ridge, New York, was arrested on September 22...

Dentist Pleads Guilty to Oxycodone Diversion

Christopher Kania of Portage, Wisconsin, has pleaded guilty to obtaining oxycodone by use of...

More Than Half of Dental Opioid Prescriptions Exceed CDC Guidelines

About half of the opioid prescriptions written by dentists in the United States exceed...

Dental Receptionist Sentenced to Prison for Forging Opioid Prescriptions

On October 28, Senior US District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo sentenced Belinda Dietrich...

Dentist Sentenced to Eight and a Half Years in Prison for Opioid Conspiracy

A dentist in Virginia Beach has been sentenced to nearly eight and a half...

US Dentists Prescribe 37 Times More Opioids Than English Dentists

Dentists in the United States write 37 times more opioid prescriptions than those practicing...

Dentist Pleads Guilty to Running Oxycodone Conspiracy

Virginia Beach dentist Gary Hartman, 48, pleaded guilty on May 9 to conspiracy to...

Walgreens Settles Fraud Cases for $269.2 Million

On January 22, 2019, the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) announced the settlement...

Head and Neck Cancer Patients Face Greater Opioid Addiction Risks

While head and neck cancer patients often receive pain medications during recovery from surgery,...