UNLUCKY 13 (Years) –
May 15, 2025 – The doctor was sentenced to 13 years in prison for running a pill mill scheme out of an urgent care center. The scheme was tied to multiple fatal drug overdoses, according to federal prosecutors.
David Allingham, 65, owned and was the only medically licensed practitioner at Oakton Care Center, and the website advertised his specialty in treating patients with addiction. His sentence in federal court resulted from conspiring to distribute oxycodone and amphetamines, maintaining drug premises, and false statements relating to health care matters. Allingham pleaded guilty in January.
The pill scheme happened between at least April 2019 and January 2024. According to prosecutors, Allingham would write prescriptions for opioids and amphetamines without properly assessing the medical need of the patients. Court documents indicate that pharmacies within Virginia filled 7,330 prescriptions for oxycodone totaling 405,164 pills that Allingham prescribed.
