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   On 24 Nov 2021, Bob Duncan  posted some   
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   >> There's another one, just shoot her in the morning.   
      
   A primary care doctor in Virginia is facing charges of illegally   
   distributing tens of thousands of oxycodone pills without any medical   
   reason in a scheme with her office manager, prosecutors said.   
      
   Kirsten Van Steenberg Ball, 68, operated a medical practice out of her   
   home in Arlington, Virginia, a suburb of the nation's capital. Over the   
   course of a decade, Ball allegedly prescribed her office manager, Candie   
   Marie Calix, about 50,000 oxycodone pills under an alias to disguise that   
   Calix was also a patient.   
      
   A federal grand jury indicted Ball on one count of conspiracy to   
   distribute oxycodone and 21 counts of distribution of oxycodone, the U.S.   
   Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced Friday.   
   Each charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years.   
      
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   Doctor previously investigated, reprimanded   
   Ball was previously investigated by the Virginia Department of Health   
   Professions, records show.   
      
   A 2015 consent order reprimanding Ball claimed she did not follow   
   appropriate procedures to screen patients for physical pain before   
   prescribing controlled narcotic medications. Some of her patients were   
   receiving narcotic prescriptions from multiple physicians at one time, the   
   order said. She also continued to prescribe these substances when patients   
   failed drug screens or did not screen patients to see if they were taking   
   medications as prescribed.   
      
   "Dr. Ball admitted that on three occasions... she wrote prescriptions for   
   oxycodone for Patient A in excess of what he should have received due to   
   her own mathematical oversight," the consent order says.   
      
   The indictment alleges Ball prescribed one patient up to 360 30-mg   
   oxycodone tablets per month and gave similarly high-dose prescriptions to   
   her own family members, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's   
   Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.   
      
   "Despite the two investigations, Ball did not change her prescribing   
   practices," the statement said.   
      
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   Office manager was ringleader of drug network   
   Calix, Ball's office manager, pleaded guilty to being the ringleader of   
   an oxycodone distribution network last June and was sentenced to seven   
   years in prison. According to prosecutors, Calix would "recruit" people,   
   including her family members, to act as patients and receive oxycodone   
   prescriptions. The "patients" would kick pills back to Calix, who would   
   then sell them.   
      
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   "Calix and her co-conspirators used coded language to refer to the pills   
   they distributed, for example, referring to oxycodone 30-mg pills as   
   'tickets,' 'blueberries,' or 'muffins,'" the U.S. Attorney's Office for   
   the Eastern District of Virginia said in a statement last year. "The co-   
   conspirators typically sold oxycodone 30-mg pills at a cost of $25 per   
   pill, and over the course of the conspiracy, generated at least $5,000 per   
   month in profits."   
      
   Two of Calix's co-conspirators also pleaded guilty, the statement said.   
      
      
      
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