Former WHO Member Sentenced on Oxycodone Distribution Charges

A former World Health Organization executive member who admitted to distributing oxycodone to New York City-area patients in exchange for $300 cash was sentenced to 50 months in prison and three years of supervised release on Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.  Noel Blackman, 69, was also ordered to forfeit $536,200 in proceeds that authorities have deemed illegal.  After stints as an executive member of the World Health Organization and the health minister of his native Guyana, Blackman practiced medicine at pain management clinics in Queens...