Tag: Dr. Edita Milan

Doctor Sentenced to 5-Years for Illegal Pain Prescriptions

 A Clarksburg pain doctor has been sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to distribute prescription pain pills.

The Exponent Telegram reports 76-year-old Edita Milan will serve time for improperly prescribing drugs from her pain management office in Bridgeport. Investigators say drugs from the clinic may have led to more than 10 overdose deaths.

Milan had pleaded no contest in December to five felony counts of illegally distributing prescription drugs.

Milan’s defense attorneys had sought house arrest for their client. They say she is the caregiver for her ailing husband and she suffers from scoliosis and high blood pressure.

Assistant U.S. attorney Andrew Cogar says he hopes the sentence has a deterrent effect on people who might be illegally distributing prescription drugs.

Two Enter Pleas in Connection with W.Va. Pain Clinic Overprescribing Case

 A West Virginia mother and son have pleaded guilty in connection with a north-central West Virginia doctor accused of overprescribing painkillers.

Federal prosecutors say 50-year-old Lois Ann Crites and 30-year-old Daniel Quirk of Fairmont entered their pleas on Wednesday.

Crites pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute controlled substances. She says she acted as office manager for Dr. Edita Milan and admitted to phoning in prescriptions to pharmacies for numerous individuals to obtain controlled substances without a valid medical reason. 

Qurik entered a plea of guilty to distribution of oxycodone. He admitted to regularly selling pills that he had received through Milan’s office.

Milan of Fairmont is scheduled for trial later this year on a charge of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.

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