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Oklahoma Doctor Fined $36,000 for Narcotics Violations

 

 

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs has fined an Oklahoma City doctor $36,000 and stripped him of authority to write prescriptions for controlled substances for the next two years.

The Oklahoman reports Dr. Harvey Jenkins was fined Tuesday. Narcotics bureau spokesman Mark Woodward said the bureau was asked to get involved in the Jenkins case by the attorney general's office in July 2013. Jenkins was under investigation for failing to comply with bureau rules and regulations.

Jenkins' offices in south Oklahoma City were raided earlier this year by bureau agents and investigators with the state attorney general's office.

According to Woodward, more than 500 loose pills, all of them controlled substances, were found in Jenkins' clinic, a violation that earned the doctor a $4,000 fine.