Tampa Pain Clinic Owner Indicted Again on Drug Charges

Troy Wubbena, physician assistant and co-owner of the Neurology & Pain Center clinics located in Tampa, Lakeland, Orlando, Jacksonville, and St. Petersburg, has been indicted again on a charge of conspiracy to traffic in oxycodone. Wubbena, of Tampa, was already facing charges of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, morphine, hydrocodone and Aprazolam (commonly known as Xanax) without a valid medical purpose and outside the course of professional practice and defrauding Medicare out of more than $200,000.

Wubbena and clinic co-owner Dr. Jeffrey Friedlander, along with two clinic employees, were initially charged back in March. The two clinic employees have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute drugs and have agreed to cooperate with the government.

The latest indictment alleges that Wubbena, who was prohibited in Florida from dispensing or prescribing controlled substances, illegally distributed oxycodone by obtaining blank prescription forms pre-signed by his supervising physician and filling them out.

Prosecutors claim that Wubbena recruited people to act as patients and to fill the prescriptions at pharmacies throughout the Middle District of Florida. He then allegedly told the people to bring him all or part of the oxycodone prescriptions.

Wubbena is also accused of filling out the blank prescriptions in the names of other people without their knowledge or consent. Those prescriptions also filled and used for illegal distribution, according to the indictment.

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