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Medical workers arrested for allowing non-qualified employees to prescribe Ritalin

Wednesday, 31 October 2007

A medical clinic head and a clerical worker were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of allowing workers without medical licenses to prescribe the drug Ritalin to patients, police said.

Arrested on suspicion of violating the Medical Practitioners Law were Nobuo Ogura, the 67-year-old head of the Keisei Edogawa Clinic in Tokyo's Edogawa-ku, and a 42-year-old female clerical worker.

The pair allegedly allowed Ritalin, an addictive drug whose abuse has sparked controversy in Japan, to be prescribed by workers who didn't hold doctors' licenses from late August and early September when there were no doctors present.

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