Instead, Lowry issued the same prescriptions for the customer that were provided by previous physicians, the statement said.
He admitted intentionally not reading the customer’s chart to determine if those prescriptions were necessary. In August 2014, Lowry signed prescriptions for a Hope customer in Charleston for 180 oxycodone pills. They admitted that the customer’s medical chart did not support the prescriptions, which were not for a legitimate medical purpose, prosecutors said. Gullett, Earley and Stanley signed numerous oxycodone prescriptions for a customer at a Charleston Hope Clinic in 2013. “A lot of effort has gone into this case.” “These pleas show our office’s continuing effort to protect lives and prevent future overdoses through all means possible,” U.S. Mark Clarkson, 64, of Princeton, West Virginia, pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor counts of aiding and abetting the misbranding of a drug involved in interstate commerce, the statement said. Those physicians are William Earley, 66, of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Brian Gullett, 45, of Clarksville, Pennsylvania Roswell Tempest Lowry, 88, of Efland, North Carolina and Vernon Stanley, 79, of Fayetteville, West Virginia. Hope Clinic had offices in Beckley, Beaver, and Charleston, West Virginia, and in Wytheville, Virginia.įour of the physicians each pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston to a felony count of aiding and abetting obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, the statement said. Some prescriptions provided up to seven pills per day, and several Hope locations averaged 65 or more daily customers during a 10-hour workday with only one practitioner working, prosecutors said in a news release. The scheme was tied to the Hope Clinic and involved prescribing oxycodone and other controlled substances that weren’t for legitimate medical purposes from 2010 to 2015. Five doctors pleaded guilty in a pain pill prescription scheme involving clinics in West Virginia and Virginia, federal prosecutors said Monday.
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