Nurse Practitioner Waives Hearing
A Bradford nurse practitioner accused of writing prescriptions she wasn’t authorized to write waived a preliminary hearing in Kane today.
The state attorney general’s office says 54-year-old Darlene Venezia Skaggs wrote two prescriptions for Oxycodone at her home, and then met a former patient and gave the prescriptions to him. She had been terminated from Medicor Associates at the time she wrote the prescriptions. According to court papers, she said she wrote them because the man “legitimately needed them.”
She is facing similar charges in five other cases.
Venezia-Skaggs remains free on unsecured bail.
Comments
Anon
I think cases like this show that someone needs to rethink Pennsylvania's controlled substance laws. Not everyone who needs Vicodin or Oxycodone, etc. is a drug addict, or abusing it, and I think it's sad that the laws/regulations make it so hard for people who, as this woman said, "legitimately need(ed) them."