Category Archives: Drug Crime
Pittsburgh Nurse Practitioner Pleads Guilty To Healthcare Fraud And Drug Diversion
Healthcare is prohibitively expensive, and in general, doctors and nurses provide the best care they can and help patients access whatever services are available to them. Therefore, healthcare professionals often face criminal charges for the types of misconduct that, in other industries, would only result in civil penalties and loss of professional licenses. When… Read More »
The Return Of GHB: The Internet Revives Yet Another 90s Fad, This Time With Major Legal Consequences
Much to the chagrin of those who lived the most embarrassing moments of their adolescence in the final decade of the previous millennium, many fads from the 1990s are making a comeback. Movies and TV shows from the 90s are getting reimagined and rebooted, to the choker necklaces, ripped jeans, and tie dye shirts… Read More »
Five Philadelphia Men Arrested For Drug Trafficking After Investigation Links Their Drugs To Fatal Overdose
Brand identity matters as much in the black market for controlled substances as it does in legal businesses. People who sell drugs illegally are simultaneously trying to avoid detection by police and to make their drugs stand out among the drugs of their competitors. People who sell illegal drugs online can craft a brand… Read More »
Misbranding A Controlled Substance
Among life’s greatest pleasures is stopping for a meal in one of Pennsylvania’s roadside diners, where every table is stocked with an array of condiments. Everyone has a grumpy uncle who, upon being served the most affordable full breakfast in town, will complain that the ketchup in the glass bottles with the Heinz labels… Read More »
Bethlehem Township Doctor Gets Prison Sentence For Illegally Prescribing Controlled Substances
Many of the scariest and most dangerous drugs are sometimes legal for medical use. Schedule I controlled substances, such as heroin, are not legal under any circumstances. Schedule II controlled substances, a category that includes fentanyl, hydrocodone, oxycodone, morphine, amphetamine (sold under the brand names Adderall and Dexedrine), and even cocaine, have accepted medical… Read More »
The 7-OH Crisis In Pittsburgh Continues
A repeating pattern in the history of society’s favorite intoxicating substances is that proponents claim that a newly introduced substance is a safe alternative to another one that has long-standing popularity and well documented risks. For example, when coffee was introduced to Europe in the 16th century, it gained a reputation as a social… Read More »
Is THCa Legal If It Is Destined To Turn Into THC By The Time You Smoke It?
Medical cannabis programs and local and state initiatives to decriminalize the possession and use of cannabis have created a lot of legally hazy situations. Pennsylvania, like many states, has not decriminalized cannabis at the statewide level, but it has had a medical cannabis program since 2016, and several cities, including Pittsburgh, have decriminalized possession… Read More »
Child Endangerment Charges When A Child Ingests Illegal Drugs
Young children will put almost anything in their mouths. The manufacturers of commercial products such as batteries and nail polish remover have started adding ingredients to the products to make them taste so bad that children would immediately spit them out and not swallow them. Sometimes children swallow things that are not food, and… Read More »
Medetomidine Causes Overdoses In Pittsburgh
Trends in illicit drug use vary according to time and geography vary as much as trends in clothing styles. You might be a veritable clothes horse in Pittsburgh, but if you travel to Los Angeles, people might tell you that your clothes are tasteless or outdated. Likewise, in the 1970s and 1980s, people turned… Read More »
Inside The Barely Legal World Of Pennsylvania Vape Shops
Cannabis is legal in Pennsylvania, except when it’s not. Buying cannabis openly, from a storefront dispensary or in the lobby of an apartment building, feels weird, like you expect undercover cops to show up and flash their badges, even though you could just as easily flash your medical cannabis card, or else take out… Read More »
