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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[Docket No. 93-41]

 

David L. Trent, M.D; Revocation of Registration

    On March 22, 1993, the Deputy Assistant Administrator (then 
Director), Office of Diversion Control, Drug Enforcement Administration 
(DEA), issued an Order to Show Cause to David L. Trent, M.D., 12013 
Surrey Lane, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73099. The Order to Show Cause 
sought to revoke Dr. Trent's (Respondent) DEA Certificate of 
Registration, AT8064379, and deny any pending applications for 
registration as a practitioner for reason that Respondent's continued 
registration would be inconsistent with the public interest as that 
term is used in 21 U.S.C. 824(a)(4) and 823(f). The Order to Show Cause 
alleged that between 1989 and 1992, Respondent prescribed numerous 
controlled substances to at least two individuals, including an 
undercover officer, for no legitimate medical purpose and outside the 
scope of professional practice.
    On April 30, 1993, Respondent filed a request for hearing on the 
matters raised in the Order to Show Cause. The matter was placed on the 
docket of Administrative Law Judge Paul A. Tenney. Following the 
submission of the parties' prehearing statements, a hearing date was 
set for September 22, 1993. On September 14, 1993, the Government filed 
a motion for summary disposition based on the Oklahoma State Bureau of 
Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control's (OBNDDC) September 13, 1993, 
order revoking Respondent's state license to handle controlled 
substances.
    The OBNDDC order, attached to the Government's motion, referred to 
an Oklahoma Medical Board (Board) complaint that alleged that in 
January 1992, Respondent issued two prescriptions for controlled 
dangerous substances to an undercover agent. According to the Board's 
complaint, Respondent issued the prescriptions without sufficient 
examination, without the establishment of a valid physician-patient 
relationship and without medical need.
    The Board complaint further asserted that during 1991 and 1992, 
Respondent prescribed, administered and dispensed controlled dangerous 
substances to other patients without sufficient examination, without 
establishing a valid physician-patient relationship and without medical 
need. Following a show cause hearing on June 3, 1993, the hearing 
officer recommended that Respondent's authority to handle controlled 
substances be revoked. This recommendation was adopted by OBNDDC order 
dated September 13, 1993.
    On September 27, 1993, Respondent answered the Government's motion 
and requested that the DEA proceedings be stayed or that the hearing 
date be rescheduled. On October 6, 1993, the administrative law judge 
issued an order granting the Government's motion for summary 
disposition and denying Respondent's request for a stay or rescheduling 
of the proceedings.
    No exceptions were filed and on January 18, 1994, the 
administrative law judge transmitted the record to the Acting 
Administrator. The Deputy Administrator now enters his final order in 
this matter pursuant to 21 CFR 1316.67.
    It is well established that the Drug Enforcement Administration 
cannot register a practitioner who is not duly authorized to handle 
controlled substances in the state in which he does business. See 21 
U.S.C. 823(f). The DEA Administrators have consistently held that 
practitioners who lack state authorization to handle controlled 
substances cannot be registered with the Drug Enforcement 
Administration. See Ramon Pla, M.D., 51 FR 41168 (1986); George S. 
Heath, M.D., 51 FR 26610 (1986); and Dale D. Shahan, D.D.S., 51 FR 
23481 (1986).
    Consequently, the Deputy Administrator concludes that Respondent's 
DEA Certificate of Registration concludes that Respondent's DEA 
Certificate of Registration should be revoked based on his lack of 
authorization to handle controlled substances in the State of Oklahoma. 
The Deputy Administrator has determined that in light of Respondent's 
lack of state authorization to handle controlled substances, it is not 
necessary to address whether Respondent's continued registration is 
inconsistent with the public interest pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 823(f) and 
824(a)(4).
    Accordingly, the Deputy Administrator of the Drug Enforcement 
Administration, pursuant to the authority vested in him by 21 U.S.C. 
823 and 824 and 28 CFR 0.100(b) and 0.104, hereby orders that DEA 
Certificate of Registration, AT8064379, issued to David L. Trent, M.D., 
be, and it hereby is, revoked, and that any pending applications for 
registration be, and they hereby are, denied. This order is effective 
June 23, 1994.

    Dated: May 17, 1994.
Stephen H. Greene,
Deputy Administrator.
[FR Doc. 94-12569 Filed 5-23-94; 8:45 am]
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