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1. Housewives are desperate: Pill-popping epidemic sweeping the suburbs
(Health/Healthquest)

... of women have admitted to sharing their prescriptions. So, is there a solution to the latest housewives pill-popping epidemic that’s sweeping our suburbs? Recovered addict Ben Levenson, CEO and co-founder ...

2. Former Dr. Ki I. Song of Matawan sentenced for illegally dispensing Xanax
(Health/Healthquest)

Former Jersey City physician lost his license last month Ki I. Song of Matawan, a former Jersey City doctor, was sentenced Monday to three years of probation for writing unnecessary prescriptions for ...

3. U.S. prescription painkiller sales reach all-time high...addicts, too
(Health/Healthquest)

... and teaching institutions, but does not keep tabs of how much individual patients receive. Experts say that most of these prescriptions are not necessary, but that doesn’t stop the doctors who are licensed ...

4. Newark pharmacist Calvin Osei of Sayreville pleads guilty to Medicaid fraud
(Health/Healthquest)

Newark pharmacist Calvin Osei of Sayreville has pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme in which pharmacy owners and employees purchased prescriptions, including HIV/AIDS drugs, from indigent patients, ...

5. Former Dr. Ki I. Song of Matawan pleads guilty to dispensing narcotics for cash
(Health/Healthquest)

Practiced in Jersey City before medical license revoked Former Jersey City doctor Ki I. Song pleaded guilty Tuesday to dispensing narcotics by writing prescriptions for medically unnecessary pharmaceutical ...

6. CVS mixup
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... no longer provide the accurancy that is needed to protect the patients. Prescriptions must be filled in 15 minutes or less when a customer is waiting. That causes undue stress on all personnel involved ...

7. Upstanding citizen
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I agree with "onelove". Every doctor writes prescriptions for medicine, that's how this works. He did his job and nothing else. He wasn't passing out drugs for free. He charged for an office visit. He ...

8. Esposito is innocent
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."During the investigation, Esposito allegedly wrote prescriptions for oxycodone for confidential informants and undercover agents of the DEA in exchange for cash on at least eight occasions" - Are ...

9. Madison Councilman Dr. Vincent Esposito charged with selling oxycontin prescriptions
(N.J./State)

Allegedly charged $90 per script for 120 high-dose pills Madison Borough Councilman Vincent A. Esposito, a physician, has been arrested on charges that he repeatedly sold prescriptions for the highly ...

10. Nadeem Akhtar and Omar Mohammad of Upper Saddle River get probation for Medicaid fraud
(Health/Healthquest)

... 2008 he offered bribes to Medicaid beneficiaries to induce them to bring their prescriptions to Orange Drugs. Mohammad, also a pharmacist at Orange Drugs, pleaded guilty to knowingly submitting claims ...

11. State launches prescription drug monitoring program to halt abuse and diversion
(Health/Healthquest)

... The database now includes information on approximately 4 million prescriptions dispensed in New Jersey in the past four months. “The New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program is one of several new ...

12. Tabloid BS
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... DEA that they will prescribe no controlled substances whatsoever, instead writing prescriptions for the latest feeble NSAID (a drug family created to allow doctors to prescribe a "pain pill" without writing ...

13. Income limits to rise Jan. 1 for N.J. seniors in state PAAD, Senior Gold and Hearing Aid programs
(N.J./State)

... paid $2,000 or a couple has paid $3,000 out-of-pocket, the beneficiary can obtain prescriptions for a flat $15 co-payment for the remainder of his Senior Gold eligibility period. Lifeline is a utility ...

14. health
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There can be a difference between what you and a health insurance company consider healthy. Some insurers will say that you have a health condition if you smoke, are overweight, are taking prescriptions, ...

15. Pharmacists Nadeem Akhtar and Omar Mohammad of Upper Saddle River, N.J. plead guilty to Medicaid fraud
(Health/Healthquest)

... induce them to bring their prescriptions to Orange Drugs. Mohammad, also a licensed pharmacist at Orange Drugs, pleaded guilty to knowingly submitting claims to the Medicaid program for drugs that were ...

16. Police in Little Falls, Seaside Heights, Vineland, N.J. providing drop boxes for unused prescriptions
(N.J./State)

... death." Data from the prescription monitoring program will help Consumer Affairs identify the warning signs of “doctor shopping,” in which abusers obtain prescriptions from multiple doctors in order ...

17. N.J. senior citizens warned to be alert for fraud during Medicare Open Enrollment period
(Money/Economy)

... calling 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227). * Before enrolling in a Medicare drug plan, you should make sure the plan covers the prescriptions you take. Get help using the Plan Finder search tool available ...

18. Understanding the Part D Medicare prescription drug plan for 2012
(Health/Healthquest)

... to change some of the numbers! I have no idea why. If you need help finding the plan that is best for you, you can go to www.Medicare.gov and enter your zip code and all the prescriptions that you ...

19. Jersey City neurologist Dr. Madgy Elamir of Saddle rearrested, charged with Medicaid fraud
(N.J./State)

... 23, 2009. Despite the suspension, which remains in effect, Elamir allegedly has been writing prescriptions. Regulations allow Medicaid to pay for prescriptions only if they are issued by a properly licensed ...

20. Medco-Express Scripts merger aims for lower drug costs
(Health/Healthquest)

... fills prescriptions for people who bring doctors' notes into Walgreen stores. But the Wall Street Journal reports the two companies failed to come to an agreement on a new contract and said they would ...