CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A West Virginia osteopath has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for illegally prescribing opioids.
Prosecutors said in a news release that 29-year-old Mathew Sisson was sentenced in federal court in Charleston for distributing oxycodone outside the bounds of professional medical practice.
Sisson admitted writing a prescription for 60 pills to an individual in a hospital lobby in 2017. The individual was not a patient and Sisson said he did not perform a physical examination of that person.
Sisson had participated in a hospital training program that allowed him to prescribe controlled substances within the program’s confines.
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