FORMER pharmacy owner, Mitchell Spivack, is set to spend three-and-a-half-years behind bars after being convicted for dispensing "massive amounts" of opioids for illegitimate use.
The disgraced Philadelphia-based pharmacist's store held the unenviable record of selling more Oxycodone than any other pharmacy in the US, Patriot News reported.
In addition to his prison sentence Spivack will undergo two years of supervised release and has been ordered to pay US$451,328 in restitution in addition to a US$116,000 fine.
His Verree Pharmacy has been fined a further US$4.1 million and has been barred from ever dispensing controlled substances.
US Attorney, Jacqueline Romero, said Spivack's pharmacy had established a reputation as being a "no questions asked" destination for opioid users over the years.
The 63-year-old entered guilty pleas to charges of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and healthcare fraud at a hearing in Jun.
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