Registered nurse allegedly wrote 35 fake prescriptions for opioids
A registered nurse was charged Thursday after she allegedly wrote 35 fake prescriptions for opioid medications, prosecutors said.
The nurse, Marjorie Taylor, 29, of Wilmington allegedly stole a prescription pad while being seen as a patient at a doctor’s office in Boston, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said in a statement.
“The defendant in this case allegedly used her medical knowledge to write convincing prescriptions for herself and her family members for opioids she would otherwise not be able to obtain,” Ryan said. “The defendant allegedly created a complex scheme through which she used multiple pharmacies and prescriptions made out to multiple relatives in an effort to conceal her own procurement of these powerful substances.”
Taylor, charged with 35 counts of uttering a false prescription for a controlled substance, was released on her personal recognizance. She is expected to return to court September 2.
Prosecutors alleged that Taylor wrote prescriptions for “thousands of painkillers” including oxycodone, hydrocodone, hydromorphane, and tramadol. The drugs were allegedly obtained at pharmacies scattered around Middlesex County, in towns including Burlington, Lowell, Reading, Wilmington, and Woburn.
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