Psychiatrist Thomas Radecki charged with overprescribing and trading treatment for sex

October 11, 2013

On or about August 20, 2013, Pennsylvania psychiatrist Thomas Radecki was charged with 13 counts of prescribing outside accepted treatment principles, four counts of provider-prohibited acts, two counts of corrupt organizations, one count of criminal conspiracy, one count of dealing in unlawful proceeds and one count of theft by deception and one count of insurance fraud. Radecki is accused of overprescribing medications and trading treatment for sex.

According to news reports, in the first five months of 2012 (before his four addiction treatment clinics were closed) Radecki was the state’s largest purchaser the Subutex (a drug used for treatment of opiate addiction) in the United States.