5 Key Takeaways

• 1

  Henry Ronald Emery, Jr., a North Carolina physician, was sentenced to 6 months in prison for unlawful buprenorphine prescribing.

• 2

  Emery conspired to allow his DEA registration number to be used for over 25,000 unlawful buprenorphine prescriptions.

• 3

  From 2018 to 2022, Emery worked for Church Ekklasia Sozo, which provided opioid addiction treatment via telemedicine.

• 4

  Patients completed an online questionnaire, and CES staff issued prescriptions without Emery's personal interaction.

• 5

  Emery received $452,830 from CES during the conspiracy, and the judge ordered a forfeiture of that amount.