Doctors in ‘pill mill’ arrests suing Carmel, DEA agent

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Doctors in ‘pill mill’ arrests suing Carmel, DEA agent

http://www.heraldbulletin.com/news/local_news/doctors-in-pill-mill-arrests-suing-carmel-dea-agent/article_82811a60-f788-11e6-a867-83fddbf61da2.html

INDIANAPOLIS — A team of doctors initially accused of operating a “pill mill” is suing the city of Carmel and a Drug Enforcement Agency agent for false arrests they say destroyed their careers.

The physicians include Dr. George Agapios, who had a Pendleton family practice and was working part-time for a Carmel opiate addiction treatment clinic when he was charged in 2014 with five felonies involving dealing in a controlled substance. The charges, filed by the Indiana Attorney General’s office, were dismissed in Hamilton County Superior Court in December 2015.

Charges against three other doctors were either dropped or ended in acquittal.

 The doctors’ complaint, filed recently in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, is a continuation of a federal lawsuit they filed in 2016 against a number of entities including the city of Kokomo and Hendricks County. However, many of those defendants were dismissed from the initial lawsuit.

The new complaint is against DEA agent Gary Whisenand, the city of Carmel and Carmel police officer Aaron Dietz.

In Carmel, the group’s clinic was operated as the Drug & Opiate Recovery Network (DORN) where Suboxone, used to manage pain and relieve opioid dependency, was often prescribed but not dispensed, court documents said.

 DORN’S medical director was Dr. Larry Ley. Dr. Ronald Vierk was an anesthesiologist at Reid Hospital in Richmond and practiced part-time at a DORN office in Richmond. Dr. Luella Bangura was a Lafayette family physician who practiced part-time at DORN’s Kokomo office. Agapios is the fourth plaintiff in the complaint.

DORN’s main clinic was in downtown Carmel.

The lawsuit claims “The presence of a clinic specializing in the treatment of opioid dependency in Carmel, Indiana, was in visible contrast to the political position of the Carmel city administration that there was no significant opioid drug addiction problem in Carmel, Indiana, that would require such a facility.”

2 Responses

  1. Good,,I commented on that site,,lets see if they censore it,,,,but good,,,our doctors should FIGHT BACK,, we are!!!!!MARY

    • censorred!!!again,,,,no swear words ,,just fact,,but again censored,,,labeled verbal criminal for telling the truth,,,wow,,welcome to America,,,maryw

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