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LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Kentucky hospital system will pay a $4.4 million civil penalty for faulty recordkeeping that enabled a pharmacy technician to divert 60,000 doses of opioids, federal prosecutors announced. Pikeville Medical Center self-reported the diversion, cooperated with a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation and has taken “substantial steps” to address its problems ahead of the settlement, which does not …
Police have arrested a 15-year-old drug dealer and an accomplice in connection with the overdose death at a Hollywood high school where the popular TV show Glee was filmed. Melanie Ramos, 15, died on Tuesday after overdosing on a fentanyl laced pill she bought from a drug dealer Ramos was found unresponsive in a restroom at Bernstein High School. She …
