MARYLAND
BOARD OF PHARMACY
PRESCRIPTION PADS
STOLEN or MISSING
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REPORT OF STOLEN OR MISSING PRESCRIPTION PADS
Incident
Date: 2/24/2010
Date
Reported to Board: 2/26/2010
Prescribers
Name: Edward Arrison
Prescriber
Specialty: Pain Management, Anesthesiology
Prescriber
Contact Information: 410-752-4101
Maryland
County / zip: Baltimore City
21230
Description of Incident: Fed-Ex delivered box of pads, several
missing
Incident
Date: 9/26/2010
Date
Reported to Board: 9/29/2010
Prescribers
Name: Maryam Jaberi MD, FACS
Prescriber
Specialty: General Surgery
Prescriber
Contact Information: 410-939-0700
Maryland
County / zip: Harford
County
Description of Incident: Fraudulent script taken
to Walgreens pharmacy in Forest Hill MD with Doctors DEA and NPI
Incident
Date: October 13, 2010
Date
Reported to Board: October 13, 2010
Prescribers
Name: Dr. David M. Cromwell
Prescriber
Specialty: Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology
Prescriber
Contact Information: 10751 Falls Rd. Ste. 401
Lutherville, MD 21093
410-583-2920
410-583-2925 (fax)
Maryland
County / zip: Baltimore County 21093
Description of Incident: A CVS
Pharmacy in
Incident
Date: 12/23/2010, 12/30/2010, 1/6/2011
Date
Reported to Board: 1/6/2011
Prescribers
Name: David A. Cohen, MD.
Prescriber
Specialty: Orthopedic Surgery
Prescriber
Contact Information: 410-282-7600 ext. 224
Maryland
County / zip: Baltimore, MD 21224
Description of Incident: A
MedStar Franklin Square Hospital prescription pad was
stolen and my DEA number was used to write over six known scripts for Oxycodone 30 mg #100.
Incident
Date: 5/27/2011
Date
Reported to Board: 6/1/2011
Prescribers
Name: MOORE CLINIC AT JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL
Prescriber
Specialty: INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Prescriber
Contact Information: 410-614-6044
Maryland
County / zip: Baltimore City 21287
Description of Incident: 2 CONTROLLED
SUBSTANCE PRESCRIPTION PADS (25 INDIVIDUAL PRESCRIPTIONS/PAD)
REPORTED AS STOLEN FROM THE MOORE CLINIC WITH SERIAL NUMBERS 0284776 – 0284825. 1 OF THESE PRESCRIPTIONS WAS IDENTIFIED AS FRAUDULENT AND ATTEMPTED
TO BE FILLED FOR OXYCODONE 30MG.
Incident
Date: 6/27/2011
Date
Reported to Board: 6/27/2011
Prescribers
Name: Kavita B. Kalra, M.D.
Prescriber
Specialty: Oncology, Hematology
Prescriber
Contact Information: 410-261-8364
Maryland County
/ zip: Baltimore
City 21218
Description of Incident: Physician was called by the Old Town
Pharmacy in Baltimore to verify the prescription for Alprazolam. This was a fraudulent prescription and likely
written on a stolen prescription pad.
Complaint was filed with the Baltimore City Police Department.
Incident
Date: 11/21/2011
Date
Reported to Board: 11/22/2011
Prescribers
Name: Joshua Ewen, MD
Prescriber
Specialty: Neurology and Developmental Medicine
Prescriber
Contact Information: Kennedy Krieger Institute 707 N.
Broadway, Balto. MD 21205
Maryland
County / zip: Balto. MD 21205
Description
of Incident: Received information at 10:30 AM 11/21/11
from Michelle, Pharmacist at Harlem Gardens Pharmacy in Baltimore that an
individual tried to fill a fraudulent prescription for Oxycodone
at her pharmacy. Michelle advised that the script appeared authentic. After
viewing faxed image of script it was determined that an unknown quantity of Dr.
Ewen’s prescriptions had been stolen. Copy of
prescription attached. Police were notified.
Incident
Date: 9/23/2011, 11/3/2011
Date
Reported to Board: 11/4/2011
Prescribers
Name: Richard
Hudes, M.D.
Prescriber
Specialty: Radiation
Oncology
Prescriber
Contact Information: 410
368 2965
Maryland
County / zip: 21229
Description of Incident: On 9/23/11 I was contacted by a pharmacist regarding a falsified/
forged oxycodone 30 mg prescription written on a stolen prescription pad from St Agnes
Hospital Cancer Institute. The
perpetrator, who is not a patient of mine, was arrested and trial is
pending.
On 11/3/11 I was contacted by another pharmacist regarding a
falsified/ forged oxycodone 30 mg prescription written on a stolen prescription
pad from St Agnes Hospital Cancer Institute.
The perpetrator, who is not a patient of mine, was arrested.
The same prescription pad also has the name and DEA# of Sylwester
Dziuba, M.D.
Dr. Dziuba and I would like pharmacists to please call our office at
410 368 2965 to verify all controlled substance prescriptions. We are on call 24/7, but if we are late in
responding then we ask that you not fill such prescriptions until confirmation
with our office even if it’s not until the next business day.
Incident
Date: 8/31/2011
Date
Reported to Board: 11/16/2011
Prescribers
Name: Nathan C Moskowitz, M.D.
Prescriber
Specialty: Neurological Surgery
Prescriber
Contact Information: 212 N. Adams Street Suite 1, Rockville, MD 20850
Maryland
County / zip: Montgomery, 20850
Description of Incident: A forger somehow obtained above pad or copied
above. Different people have turned up at different pharmacies with “Roxycodone #150”. The policed are called but some may be
filled by innocent pharmacists. Please take care to never fill any Roxycodone or any narcotics over #60 for Dr. Moskowitz.
Incident
Date:
12/8/11
Date
Reported to Board: 12/8/11
Prescribers
Name: COMMUNITY
CHILD PSYCHIATRY PROGRAMS AT JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL
Prescriber
Specialty: PEDIATRIC
PSYCHIATRY
Prescriber
Contact Information: 410
262-6434
Description of Incident: JOHNS
HOPKINS HOSPITAL CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE PRESCRIPTION PADS WITH SERIAL NUMBERS 0062215
– 0062450
REPORTED AS STOLEN FROM CLINIC OFFICE OF DR. JOYCE NOLAN HARRISON, 403 N.
CAROLINE STREET, BALTIMORE, MD.
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