Dr. Krishan Aggarwal was indicted by federal prosecutors in West Virginia on allegations that he was unlawfully prescribing controlled substances at a Pennsylvania and West Virginia Suboxone clinic. Suboxone is a drug utilized to treat patients suffering from addiction and has been quite successful in leading to the recovery of many patients.

Unfortunately, prosecutors in West Virginia wished to apply traditional notions of medical practice to the prescribing of a drug that is much more psychological than physical. Federal prosecutors failed to recognize that patients requiring Suboxone treatment require support and counseling in the face of relapse and not punishment or rapid denial of their medications.

Dr. Aggarwal selected Ronald W. Chapman II of the Chapman Law Group to defend him. Armed with expert testimony regarding the effects of Suboxone and vigorous cross examination of the DEA agents and law enforcement officers who sought to end his career, Dr. Aggarwal emerged from federal court victorious. He determined “not guilty” on all counts of the indictment and walked out of court a free man.