Physician sentenced for unlawful buprenorphine prescribing

Filed documents show staff issued more than 25,000 buprenorphine prescriptions in the physician’s name.

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Henry Ronald Emery, Jr., a North Carolina physician, was sentenced to 6 months in prison for unlawful buprenorphine prescribing.
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Emery conspired to allow his DEA registration number to be used for over 25,000 unlawful buprenorphine prescriptions.
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From 2018 to 2022, Emery worked for Church Ekklasia Sozo, which provided opioid addiction treatment via telemedicine.
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Patients completed an online questionnaire, and CES staff issued prescriptions without Emery's personal interaction.
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Emery received $452,830 from CES during the conspiracy, and the judge ordered a forfeiture of that amount.

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