MetroWest nurse accused of 107 illicit pill prescriptions
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Attorney General Maura Healey's office has arraigned a nurse who worked for the MetroWest Medical Center.
A former nurse practitioner at MetroWest Medical Center has been arraigned in court in connection with allegedly illegally prescribing thousands of painkillers to her family members and friends across the state, Attorney General Maura Healey announced Wednesday.
Roberta Regan, 51, was arraigned today in Suffolk Superior Court on six counts of illegally prescribing Oxycodone. At the arraignment, Regan pleaded not guilty to the charges. Suffolk Superior Court Clerk Magistrate Anne Kaczmarek released Regan on her own personal recognizance.
“At a time when we’re working to combat the opioid epidemic, actions like these threaten that progress and help fuel addiction,” AG Maura Healey said in a statement.
This case is the result of an investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) that began after Regan was terminated from her employment as a nurse practitioner at MetroWest Medical Center after allegedly misusing hospital prescription pads, according to a release from Healey’s office. The Prescription Drug Monitoring Program revealed Regan had written 119 prescriptions over a one-year period for a total of 10,007 tablets and of those only 12 of those prescriptions were to legitimate patients at the medical center.
According to the AG’s office, the investigation revealed Regan was allegedly writing prescriptions for family members and friends and then would often receive a portion of the pills back in exchange for writing the prescription. While some of the people who received the illegal prescriptions used the pills to treat various levels of pain, according to the release, they were never patients of Regan’s and many allegedly developed some level of addiction.
Regan is scheduled to be arraigned in Norfolk Superior Court on July 28 on three counts of illegally prescribing Oxycodone, one count of illegally prescribing Lorazepam and one count of illegally prescribing Clonazepam and in Plymouth Superior Court on Aug. 4 on one count of illegally prescribing Oxycodone. She is due back in Suffolk Superior Court on Sept. 13 for a pre-trial conference.
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