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Feb 13, 2012 · COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Dr. Paul Volkman has long denied charges that he doled out prescription painkillers so frequently and with so little regard to the health of the people he saw that he caused the deaths of four patients and may have played a role in eight other deaths.
Dec 1, 2019 · CLEVELAND, Ohio — The last pill mill doctor in Scioto County is headed to prison, joining several practitioners and business owners who pushed the rural community to the forefront of the state’s...
May 11, 2011 · (CBS/AP) COLUMBUS, Ohio - Chicago doctor Paul Volkman, accused of running a pill mill in an Appalachian county where painkillers are a public-health scourge, was convicted Monday of illegal...
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Mar 7, 2024 · The book follows the true crime story of Paul Volkman, a man sentenced to four consecutive life terms in prison for a prescription drug-dealing scheme that was part of the opiate epidemic in...
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Jul 5, 2017 · Volkman is now part of a legacy of corrupt doctors that swooped in to southern Ohio, profited through pill mills, and ended up in prison.
Apr 14, 2024 · Dr. Paul Volkman viewed himself as a white-coated savior easing the suffering of chronic-pain patients in medically underserved swaths of southern Ohio and northern Kentucky.
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Apr 12, 2024 · On February 14, 2012, a federal judge in Ohio gave the 64-year-old Volkman four consecutive life sentences for four convictions of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death. The judge also sentenced Volkman for 13 other counts, including illegally prescribing and dispensing pain pills, operating drug premises ...
