East Brunswick doctor gets license taken for prescribing high painkiller prescriptions
East Brunswick doctor gets license taken for prescribing high painkiller prescriptions
Kulischenko indiscriminately prescribed highly addictive opioid painkillers to patients for years.
As of June 1, Kulischenko, an internist with a practice in East Brunswick, is permanently barred from practicing medicine under a consent order filed by the board this week, according to the statement.
The order also permanently revokes Kulischenko’s N.J. controlled dangerous substances (CDS) registration, which allowed him to prescribe CDS in New Jersey, according to the statement.
“Doctors who indiscriminately prescribe addictive pain medications in violation of their professional obligations and state law place their patients at risk and increase the chances of those drugs falling into the wrong hands,” Grewal said in the statement. “Each time a dangerous prescriber is taken out of practice permanen
East Brunswick Doctor's License Suspended For Opioids - East Brunswick, NJ - The NJ doctor "indiscriminately prescribed" opioid painkillers to patients for years, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said.
NorthJersey.com
A former pharmaceutical executive will pay New Jersey $5 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed his company bribed health care professionals to write improper prescriptions for a powerful opioid, state authorities said Thursday.
John N. Kapoor, 77, of Phoenix, Arizona, was already sentenced last January to more than five years in federal prison for his role in fueling the nation s opioid crisis.
Now he will also make two payments to New Jersey a lump sum of $1 million followed by another of $4 million to settle allegations that he directed and approved a campaign that fraudulently marketed the sublingual fentanyl spray Subsys, which is 50 times stronger than heroin.