BOSTON (WWLP) – A Massachusetts psychiatrist was sentenced last week in Boston federal court for illegally prescribing controlled substances.
Charging documents stated that 69-year-old Mohamad Och was a licensed psychiatrist who owned and operated Island Counseling Center (ICC) in Worcester. Och has practiced psychiatry in other locations in the state, including Nantucket, during which time he was authorized to prescribe Schedule II-IV controlled substances to patients.
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Investigators discovered that Och had repeatedly prescribed a combination of benzodiazepines and stimulants to individuals outside of the typical professional practice and not for legitimate medical reasons. Between August 2016 and February 2017, Och issued prescriptions for Adderall and Xanax to undercover federal agents.
These medications were distributed to the agents by Och without proper psychiatric examinations, acquisition or review of medical records, or administration of diagnostic tests. Och also did not review or discuss the prescriptions’ benefits, side effects, or symptoms of the patients’ conditions and symptoms, despite writing in medical records that he had…