United States of America v. Adrian Dexter Talbot, M.D.

New Orleans, Louisiana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with seven counts related to prescribing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose and outside the course of professional practice.

Digested by: Kent Morlan

Adrian Dexter Talbot is a physician based in Louisiana. In 2010, he
established Medex Clinical Consultants, PLLC (“Medex”), a private
medical practice in Slidell, Louisiana. Talbot sought to “provid[e] care to
patients with pain and addiction-related disorders.” Five years after Talbot
opened his practice, he accepted a full-time position as Chief of Medicine at
the Veterans Affairs (“VA”) Medical Center in Alexandria, Louisiana. That
hospital was approximately a 3.5-hour drive from Slidell, so Talbot went to
Medex about once a week.

Talbot was indicted for the
following offenses: conspiring to unlawfully distribute and dispense
controlled substances in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 (Count 1); unlawfully
distributing and dispensing a controlled substance in violation of 21 U.S.C.
§ 841(a)(1) (Counts 2–5); maintaining a drug-involved premises in violation
of 21 U.S.C. § 856(a)(1) (Count 6); and conspiring to commit health care
fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349 (Count 7).

A jury convicted him on all counts. The district court sentenced Talbot to 87 months’ imprisonment.

Affirmed on appeal.