{"id":468186,"date":"2022-03-21T08:39:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T08:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=468186"},"modified":"2022-03-21T08:39:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T08:39:19","slug":"doctor-prescribed-one-patient-9000-adderall-pills-in-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=468186","title":{"rendered":"Doctor 'prescribed ONE patient 9,000 Adderall pills in THREE months'"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Howard S. Weiss, a psychiatrist from Englewood, Colorado was indicted by a federal grand jury on 120 criminal charges. He has pleaded not guilty<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A doctor prescribed more than 10,000 pills to a single patient in a three-month period, including 9,000 doses of Adderall and hundreds of Xanax and muscle relaxant tablets, while operating a \u2018cash-only’ practice, it’s been alleged.<\/p>\n

Dr. Howard S. Weiss, a 66-year-old psychiatrist from Englewood, Colorado was indicted by a federal grand jury on 120 criminal charges, according to court documents from the US District Court in Denver.<\/p>\n

Weiss has pleaded not guilty to the charges in court on Friday. He later posted $100,000 bond.<\/p>\n

According to federal prosecutors, Weiss charged patients between $650 and $850 per visit when they went to see him at his clinic in the Denver suburb of Greenwood Village.<\/p>\n

The federal government alleges that Weiss even charged those sums when seeing indigent patients who relied on Medicaid, the low-income, government-subsidized program.<\/p>\n

He would then prescribe them powerful opioids and other drugs that are considered highly addictive, including methamphetamine, mixed amphetamine salts, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n

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Federal prosecutors allege that Weiss prescribed one of his patients 9,000 Adderall<\/a> pills, 480 pills of the muscle relaxant Soma, and 480 Xanax tablets within a three-month period<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The indictment was unsealed last week by the US District Court in Colorado<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018Between approximately August 2013 and June 2019, the defendant, Howard Weiss, distributed controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice and for no legitimate purpose,’ federal prosecutors wrote in the indictment.<\/p>\n

\u2018Weiss prescribed high doses of benzodiazepines to individuals who were also taking opioids or who were being treated<\/a> for opioid abuse,’ the indictment alleges.<\/p>\n

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