Pensacola医生认罪：五年非法开出逾2.55万粒管制药，含2.2万粒阿片类药物
美国缉毒局（DEA）与司法部佛罗里达州北区联邦检察官办公室10月21日宣布，Pensacola Beach 医生 Edward Scott Morrison 已在联邦法院就19项非法分发或配发受管制药物罪认罪。宣布消息的是联邦检察官 John P. Heekin。
法庭记录显示，2020年至2025年间，现年58岁的 Morrison 是持佛罗里达州执照的医生，受聘在 Escambia 县及周边的医院急诊部门与其他医疗办公室工作，其间非法开出至少25,500粒受管制药物，包括逾22,000粒阿片类药物（主要为羟考酮与氢可酮）及逾3,000粒兴奋剂（主要为 Adderall 或其仿制药）。检方称，他在未确定药物是否有正当医疗目的、未做身体检查、未查阅评估全部可得的既往病历与处方记录、也未建立任何就诊记录的情况下签署并发出这些处方；有人本人或通过第三方提出要求，他即按对方想要的种类、剂量与数量开药。非法开出的药物随后在 Escambia 县与 Santa Rosa 县的多家药房配发。
联邦检察官 John P. Heekin 表示：「这名被告身为医疗专业人员，反复滥用其开具强效管制药物的权力，行径无异于穿着白大褂的毒贩。阿片类药物泛滥持续给本区与全国社区带来毁灭性影响，本办公室将积极起诉这些致命药物的贩卖者，让他们为其造成的痛苦、成瘾与绝望负责。」
量刑定于2027年1月14日上午11时，由联邦地区法官 M. Casey Rodgers 主持；Morrison 每项罪名最高可判20年监禁。此案是司法部2026年全国医疗欺诈集中打击行动的一部分，由 DEA 及 DEA 药品转移管制部门调查，墨西哥湾沿岸高强度贩毒区（HIDTA）专案组、Escambia 县警长办公室、Pensacola 警局、Gulf Breeze 警局、陆军刑事调查部门与食品药品监管局（FDA）刑事调查办公室协助。
Pensacola Doctor Pleads Guilty: Illegally Prescribed More Than 25,500 Controlled-Substance Pills Over Five Years
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Florida announced on October 21 that Dr. Edward Scott Morrison, 58, of Pensacola Beach, Florida, pleaded guilty in federal court to nineteen counts of unlawfully distributing or dispensing controlled substances. U.S. Attorney John P. Heekin announced the plea.
Court records establish that between 2020 and 2025, Morrison, a Florida-licensed physician contracted to work at hospital emergency departments and other medical offices in and around Escambia County, illegally prescribed at least 25,500 controlled-substance pills, including over 22,000 opioid pills (primarily oxycodone and hydrocodone) and over 3,000 stimulant pills (primarily Adderall or generic equivalents). Prosecutors said he wrote, signed, and distributed the prescriptions without determining whether there was a legitimate medical purpose, without conducting physical examinations, without reviewing and assessing all available historical medical and prescribing records, and without creating or maintaining any records of the encounters; he issued prescriptions simply upon a person's request, or a third party's request, in whatever type, dosage, and quantity was desired. The pills were filled and dispensed at pharmacies in Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties.
"This defendant repeatedly abused his ability to prescribe powerful controlled substances as a medical professional and acted as little more than a drug dealer in a lab coat," U.S. Attorney John P. Heekin said. "The opioid epidemic continues to have a devastating impact on communities within my district and nationwide, and my office is committed to aggressively prosecuting the peddlers of those deadly drugs to hold them accountable for the pain, addiction, and despair they have wrought."
Sentencing is set for January 14, 2027, at 11 a.m. before U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers, and Morrison faces up to 20 years in prison on each count. The case was part of the Department of Justice's 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown and was investigated by the DEA and its Diversion Control Division, with assistance from the Gulf Coast High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force, the Escambia County Sheriff's Office, the Pensacola Police Department, the Gulf Breeze Police Department, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division, and the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA-OCI).
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图片来源：图：位于 Pensacola 的 Winston E. Arnow 联邦大楼（资料图），佛罗里达州北区联邦地区法院设于此楼。Carol M. Highsmith 摄，公共领域，取自维基共享资源。Photo: The Winston E. Arnow Federal Building in Pensacola, Florida, home of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida (file photo). Carol M. Highsmith, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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