- Police raid Toyota offices after arresting US executive (bigstory.ap.org)
Police raided Toyota Motor Corp.'s headquarters and its Tokyo and Nagoya offices …. following the arrest of a senior American executive on suspicion of drug law violations…Julie Hamp,.. arrested…suspicion of importing oxycodone,…the drugs were in a parcel..mailed to herself.
- Deadly Chinese drugs are flooding the U.S., and police can’t stop them (washingtonpost.com)
Want to get your hands on a sizable amount of the latest designer street drug? It’s nearly as easy as typing “research chemicals” into Google, exasperated American officials say.….. endless list of Chinese Web sites hawking wholesale chemicals at a bargain price,…..
- Military contractor’s Virginia medical license revoked (washingtonpost.com)
The medical license of a government contractor was revoked Friday after Army medical students testified about a series of bizarre, invasive and sexually tinged battlefield-trauma procedures he subjected them to.
- Kentucky Physician Charged with Prescribing Pain Medications that Resulted in the Deaths of Five Patients (dea.gov)
Jaime Guerrero faces additional charges including conspiracy, money laundering and health care fraud….a physician charged with prescribing pain medications that resulted in the deaths of five patients, unlawful distribution or dispensing of controlled substances and health care fraud, now faces the additional charges of conspiracy, money laundering and an additional count of health care fraud..
- 40 Charged, Huge Cash and Drug Seizures of Organization Tied to Murders (dea.gov)
DEA investigation that yielded over 50 federal indictments for a nationwide drug trafficking organization….operation yielded over $2 million in cash, 82 pounds of methamphetamine, 5 kilograms of heroin, 12 kilograms of cocaine, and over 1,000 pounds of marijuana. In addition, several murders were connected to members of this violent criminal network.
- Hospital employee indicted for fraud after swiping data of 12K (healthcareitnews.com)
A former employee at a major New York health system has been indicted, along with seven others, for stealing personal data of 12,000 patients, enabling more than $50,000 in fraud....swiping patient data and supplying it to an identity theft ring.
- How one tech stole drugs from his hospitals and infected dozens with hep C (advisory.com)
The takeaway: David Kwiatkowski, who is serving a 39-year jail sentence for stealing drugs and infecting patients with hepatitis C, explains how he stole narcotics and continued to be hired for hospital jobs—despite repeatedly being caught.
- Drug laws in Japan pose problems for Toyota exec (usatoday.com)
The president of Toyota publicly backed Julie Hamp a day after she was arrested and accused of smuggling prescription painkillers (Oxycodone) into the country…. possession is illegal in Japan without a prescription and special permission is required to bring it into the country.
- Illicit drugs ‘rampant’ in California state prisons (washingtonpost.com)
California inmates are dying of drug overdoses at nearly triple the national rate and it’s unclear whether the tough steps state officials took this year to stop illicit drugs from getting into prisons are having any effect, though they are prompting criticism from civil rights advocates.
- Hospital pharmacy chief admits stealing 200,000 oxycodone pills (drugtopics.modernmedicine.com)
...former pharmacy director at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City recently pled guilty to four counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance...admitted stealing nearly 200,000 oxycodone pills with an estimated street value of $5.6 million....hospital’s pharmacy director for 14 years.