A former physician from Orange County has been handed a 151-month jail term for unlawfully prescribing in excess of 120,000 opioid pills without medical justification over six years, in exchange for cash and insurance payments. Dzung Anh Pham, 61, of Tustin, owned Irvine Village Urgent Care, and was issued his sentence by US District Judge Josephine L. Staton, who also took $35,000 from him and ordered him remanded into custody, as per the US Attorney’s Office. Pham pled guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances last year. Pham’s co-defendant, ex-pharmacist Jennifer Nguyen, conspired with him to traffic narcotics such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, and amphetamine salts. The two returned to plead guilty to their role in it all. Nguyen was sentenced to 33 months in jail and a fine of $10,000. According to prosecutors, Pham wrote prescriptions for approximately 53,693 pills of oxycodone, 68,795 pills of hydrocodone, and 29,286 pills of amphetamine salts between January 2013 and December 2018, listing 18 other clients in his plea agreement. Following Pham’s 2018 charges, five people that were prescribed by the doctor died of overdoses.
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