Grand Rapids physician sentenced for prescribing illegal opioids
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. â Dr. Richard Samuel Piazza, D.O., has been sentenced to 71 months behind bars for writing up illegal opioid prescriptions, according to the U.S. Attorneyâs Office, Western District of Michigan.
Judge Janet T. Neff, who handed down the sentence, also sentenced Piazza to three years of supervised release, according to the national attorneyâs office.
âDr. Piazza stands convicted of the same offenses we charge against street corner drug dealers,â says U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge. âThose who feed the opioid crisis by writing prescriptions for no legitimate medical purpose deserve to be treated this way under the law.â
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cal Director for The Prometheus Group Pleads Guilty for Role in Causing the Reuse of Single-User Rectal Pressure Sensors on Multiple Patients
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Clinical director pleads guilty to training West Michigan medical professionals to reuse rectal devices
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Posted Dec 14, 2020
Denise D’Andrea, director of clinical services at New Hampshire-based Prometheus Group, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan, to training medical practitioners in the region to reusing single-use rectal devices on multiple patients. (Advance Local File photo)File photo
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN The director of clinical services at a major medical manufacturer admitted to training medical practitioners to reuse single-use rectal devices on multiple patients.
Denise D’Andrea, director of clinical services at New Hampshire-based Prometheus Group, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan, to one count of causing the adulteration of a medical device, a Dec. 14 news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office states.