Former Tennessee clinic owner gets 14 years in prison for opioid distribution

January 22, 2022 at 3:50 p.m. | Updated January 22, 2022 at 3:50 p.m.

by Staff Report

FILE - This Aug. 29, 2018, file photo shows an arrangement of Oxycodone pills in New York. The three biggest U.S. drug distribution companies and the drugmaker Johnson & Johnson are on the verge of a $26 billion settlement covering thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids across the U.S., two people with knowledge of the plans told The Associated Press. The settlement involving AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson is expected this week. A $1 billion-plus deal involving the three distributors and the state of New York was planned for Tuesday, July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
FILE - This Aug. 29, 2018, file photo shows an arrangement of Oxycodone pills in New York. The three biggest U.S. drug distribution companies and the drugmaker Johnson & Johnson are on the verge of a $26 billion settlement covering thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids across the U.S., two people with knowledge of the plans told The Associated Press. The settlement involving AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson is expected this week. A $1 billion-plus deal involving the three distributors and the state of New York was planned for Tuesday, July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

A former Coffee County, Tennessee, clinic owner was sentenced Friday to 14 years in prison for opioid distribution in District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga, according to the Department of Justice.

Mark Daniel Allen, 64, of Venice, Florida, was also sentenced to $700 in special assessments and three years of supervised release. He owned a clinic in Manchester, Tennessee, called Volunteer Family Medical.

During his three-day trial, evidence that stemmed from an investigation showed Allen had unlawfully prescribed about 15,000 opioid pills to three women with whom he had sexual relationships and also to a male patient who later died. He was found guilty of six counts of unlawfully distributing controlled substances and one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises.

- Compiled by Kim Sebring

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