In her first few weeks in office, she charged Dr. Randolph Lievertz of Indianapolis with illegally prescribing OxyContin.

Doctors accused of improperly dispensing drugs have usually been charged with fraud or with illegally prescribing controlled substances.

Dr. MacKay was convicted in August, 2011 of 40 counts related to illegally prescribing pain killers.

She had been illegally prescribing and at Airedale General Hospital for years before the death of a patient raised concerns in 2002.

The three are accused of running a scheme to illegally prescribe anabolic steroids and human growth hormones.

A spokesman for Mr. Kuriansky, Kevin Ryan, said he could not provide a dollar value on the amount of drugs Dr. del Gizzo is charged with prescribing illegally.

Mr. Swango had faced up to 25 years if convicted of the false-statement charge and related charges of illegally prescribing narcotics to patients.

Mr. Brownlee and other prosecutors decided to investigate Purdue Pharma after bringing cases against drug addicts as well as local doctors accused of illegally prescribing the drug.

She is a doctor who was imprisoned for illegally prescribing pain killers to her patients.

He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for illegally prescribing medicine to his patients.