MARYLAND – A Maryland physician may face 20 years in jail after pleading responsible to illegal distribution of managed substances.
The physician has been recognized as 48-year-old Anissa Maroof of Potomac, Maryland. Maroof pled responsible to a federal cost of distributing and shelling out managed substances.
Based on the responsible plea, between January 2019 and June 2022, Maroof knowingly assisted within the distribution and shelling out of Alprazolam, Amphetamine-dextroamphetamine, and Buprenorphine.
Maroof, a doctor who was board-certified in dependancy psychiatry, owned and operated a medical follow in Bethesda, Maryland. She was accused of offering sufferers from West Virginia with prescriptions for managed substances, together with Alprazolam, Amphetamine-dextroamphetamine, and Buprenorphine.
Courtroom paperwork say Maroof prescribed sufferers mixtures of Alprazolam, Amphetamine-dextroamphetamine, and Buprenorphine with out warning them in regards to the dangers of mixing these medicines. She additionally prescribed managed substances to sufferers even after they indicated that they have been promoting their extra provide of managed substances by means of illicit channels.
Moreover, Maroof frequently prescribed managed substances to sufferers with out offering them with therapeutic providers. On quite a few events, Maroof known as in prescriptions to native pharmacies with out first seeing the affected person, after which directed the affected person to depart money beneath her workplace door in change for writing the prescriptions. She additionally usually suggested sufferers on easy methods to break up filling their prescriptions between completely different pharmacies.
Maroof faces a most of 20 years in jail adopted by as much as three years of supervised launch.
