Pharmacy Owner Pleads Guilty in Compounded Capsule Conspiracy

A pharmacy owner in Ashland, Kentucky, has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to misbrand oxycodone and hydrocodone, which were compounded into capsules for purposes that were not medically legitimate. Karl O’Dell, 61, a pharmacist and owner of the pharmacy, pleaded guilty on Tuesday. He faces up to one year in prison and a $100,000 fine when he is sentenced Nov. 29, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia.   O’Dell admitted that as part of the conspiracy, in July 2014 and again in August 2014, he received and filled two prescript...