The investigation announces itself rarely and obliquely. The signs that it is underway are present before any official contact occurs, and by the time a...
Any list of the ten most dangerous drugs in America depends on how danger is measured. Measured by annual mortality, the list is dominated by opioids and...
A guilty plea in a federal opioid fraud case is a permanent legal event with consequences that extend well beyond the sentence imposed. Understanding...
The geography of DEA opioid enforcement reflects the geography of the opioid crisis itself, which was never distributed uniformly across the country. The...
Ketamine's Schedule III classification produces a different mandatory minimum structure than the Schedule II opioids at the center of most opioid fraud...
DEA opioid investigations do not begin with suspicion. They begin with data. The contemporary DEA investigation of a prescriber, pharmacist, or healthcare...
An internal investigation is a privileged inquiry, conducted under counsel's direction, into the clinical and administrative conduct that a government...
A False Claims Act investigation is a civil proceeding with criminal consequences that may run alongside it. In the opioid context, the two proceedings...
Prescription fraud is the use of deception to obtain a controlled substance prescription that would not be issued if the relevant facts were known. The...