• Doctor: Mark Cukierman

• State: Florida

• Detail: In 2012, he was charged with conspiracy to traffic in oxycodone and  operating a non-registered pain clinic. In 2013, He faced new charges after a pill mill bust. He pleaded guilty to racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering, delivering of a controlled substances and illegally prescribing a controlled substance in 2013.

• Status: Status not clear. Charges apparently still pending

• Doctor: John Dimowo

• State: California

• Detail: He was convicted in 2015 of seven felony counts of unlawful prescription of a controlled substance, accused of charging patients $250 to $400 for each visit, where they would get prescriptions for hydrocodone and other drugs without appropriate exams. But the judge reduced the counts to misdemeanors and effectively sentenced the doctor to time served.

• Status: Out on probation

• Doctor: Edd Colbert Jones

• State: Georgia

• Detail: In 2015, he charged with illegal prescribing and assisting in illegal distribution. He later pleaded guilty to drug charges and this past April was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: Rafael L. Beier

• State: Idaho

• Detail: He created fake patient profiles to help cover up prescriptions, some of which he sold to strippers. After he was convicted of more than 60 counts of delivery of a controlled substance, he fled. Federal agents later captured him. His sentencing was pending a mental evaluation, Boise Weekly reported.

• Status: Awaiting sentencing but may be in jail

• Doctor: Robert Rand

• State: Nevada

• Detail: He took part in a drug ring that operated out of a car dealership and pleaded guilty this year to involuntary manslaughter for one overdose death and unlawful distribution of controlled substances. But a police affidavit said he was being investigated for about 60 other deaths. He was sentenced in November to 10 years in prison.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: Eugene Evans Jr

• State: New Jersey

• Detail: In 2015 he was sentenced to five years in state prison for illegally distributing oxycodone. Authorities said he conspired with a drug dealer.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: Robert M. Ritchea

• State: Alabama and Georgia

• Detail: In May, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for operating a pill through through his medical practice in Phenix City, Alabama. The Drug Enforcement Administration said he bought hydromorphone and hydrocodone directly from a drug manufacturer, then distributed the opioids directly out of his medical practice.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: Mohammad Derani

• State: Michigan

• Detail: In August 2017 the 67-year-old was arrested in what authorities said was a pill mill operation. The criminal charges are pending.

• Status: Not convicted

• Doctor: Stephanie Tarapchak

• State: Pennsylvania

• Detail: The family medicine doctor was sentenced last year to up to 15 years in prison after a jury convicted her of charges included drug delivery resulting in death. Her daughter also overdosed, but survived, after taking Xanax that the doctor prescribed.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: Edward Jack Sayegh

• State: Arizona

• Detail: Prosecutors said he would prescribe pills to drug dealers in exchange for cocaine, alcohol and prostitutes. In 2015, he was sentenced to four years in prison for conspiring with drug dealers.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: William Hedrick

• State: Indiana

• Detail: In 2015, the pain doctor was arrested on eight felony charges, including reckless prescribing. Authorities said eight people who received prescriptions from him or one of his nurse practitioners died. His trial is set for 2018.

• Status: Not convicted

• Doctor: Tristan Stonger

• State: Indiana

• Detail: Investigators said he saw as many as 100 patients a day and traded pain pills for sex and for work on his farm. While he was charged with 55 felonies, in a plea deal he admitted to five charges and the 70-year-old received probation.

• Status: On probation

• Doctor: Johnny Clyde
Benjamin Jr.

• State: Florida

• Detail: In October, he was charged in state court with counterfeiting oxycodone that was actually fentanyl. Federal prosecutors then accused him of two narcotics charges related to a patient's death. The criminal case is pending.

• Status: Not convicted

• Doctor: Henri Wetselaar

• State: Nevada

• Detail: The 93-year-old doctor, who did house calls and had a medical practice, this year was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. It was apparently a profitable business. The federal indictment alleged that in about 11 months' time, Wetselaar earned more than $263,000 from the scheme. He also owned dozens of gold coins and about $50,000 worth of bonds, according to news reports. Also of note: while the doctor previously filed a statement saying he had Alzheimer's and other cognitive impairments, he continued seeing patients in January and February 2017, court records show. Other intriguing details here

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: David A. Wait

• State: Pennsylvania

• Detail: Last year, he was sentenced to state prison after he pleaded guilty to writing pain pill prescriptions to people he never even met. An undercover state agent helped bust him. He reportedly said he sold prescriptions because he was in financial trouble.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: Joel E. Miller

• State: Colorado

• Detail: In 2016, he was sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of prescribing drugs without a legitimate medical purpose, which led to the death of a patient.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: Michael Minas

• State: Idaho

• Detail: In 2016, he was convicted of 80 charges involving unlawful distribution of drugs, and he was later sentenced to eight years in federal prison.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: Howard Gregg Diamond

• State: Texas

• Detail: The pain management doctor was arrested this year on federal charges in the overdose deaths of at least seven patients and is under investigation for 15 more deaths, a DEA investigator has testified. She also testified that Diamond ranked second in Texas for prescriptions for hydrocodone dosage units in 2016, and 97% of the hydrocodone he prescribed was for the highest strength.

• Status: Not convicted

• Doctor: Willem Ouw

• State: Florida

• Detail: In June 2017, the 84-year-old physician was arrested on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and distribution of oxycodone. Also arrested were three of his medical staffers. They prescribed more than 400,000 oxycodone pills with an estimated value of $10 million. The criminal case is pending.

• Status: Not convicted

• Doctor: Shakeel Kahn

• State: Wyoming

• Detail: An indictment this year said that patients would travel from as far away as Massachusetts to obtain prescriptions from him for $500 cash. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. The case is pending.

• Status: Not convicted

• Doctor: Hsiu-Ying 'Lisa' Tseng

• State: California

• Detail: After a dozen of her patients died of overdoses, she was convicted of second-degree murder for three overdose deaths. She was sentenced last year to 30 years to life in prison.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: Peter Katz

• State: Florida

• Detail: In April, the 72-year-old was accused of prescribing painkillers for cash. In November, the Florida Department of Health suspended his license over the deaths of four patients.

• Status: Not convicted

• Doctor: Paul Volkman

• State: Ohio

• Detail: In 2013, he was sentenced to four life terms after he was convicted of illegally prescribing oxycodone blamed for overdose deaths. He was the No. 1 practitioner purchaser of oxycodone in Ohio in 2004, purchasing 97 times the national average for practitioner purchases of oxycodone, authorities said.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: Stephen J. Schneider

• State: Kansas

• Detail: After at least 68 of his patients died of drug overdoses, investigators began examining how he and his wife dispensed narcotics. He was convicted in 2010 but was re-sentenced in 2015 after a U.S. Supreme Court decision to 30 years in prison for illegally distributing prescription pain killers.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: Michael Fishman

• State: Georgia

• Detail: The Alpharetta doctor was arrested May 11, 2017, at St. George Island in Florida with 81 oxycodone pills in his possession, authorities said. He works for an addiction recovery center in Georgia. His medical license was suspended on June.

• Status: Not convicted

• Doctor: Regan Ganoung Nichols

• State: Oklahoma

• Detail: She was charged this year with second-degree murder in the overdose deaths of five patients. Three of those patients were prescribed the "holy trinity" of drugs: an opioid, a benzodiazepine and carisoprodol, a combination said to produce euphoria. In September 2015, she had been placed on five years probation by the state osteopathic board after complaints of six patient deaths. As many as 10 of her patients died of overdoses, authorities said.

• Status: Not convicted

• Doctor: James Alvin Chaney

• State: Kentucky

• Detail: He was convicted this year of more than 150 charges, including drug trafficking, health care fraud and money laundering, and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Prosecutors said he and his wife made millions by unlawful prescribing, using the proceeds to buy a private plane, houses, travel and personal luxury items. He billed Medicare for exams when he was outside the U.S. on vacation and altered aberrant drug test results to bill Medicare for the drug screens.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: Anthony Joseph Moschetto

• State: New York

• Detail: The cardiologist pleaded guilty to setting fire to a rival doctor's office, criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance, and other charges. News reports say he wanted to get rid of another cardiologist and began selling oxycodone and weapons and tried to hire a hitman. More than 100 weapons were found in a secret room at his home. Earlier this year, he was sentenced to five years in prison.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: Harinder Kumar Takyar

• State: Arizona

• Detail: In June 2016, he was indicted on 42 counts involving controlled substances. He was accused of writing prescriptions for opioids to those with no medical necessity and paying kickbacks to others in the medical profession for referrals to his office.  He has pleaded not guilty.

• Status: Not convicted

• Doctor: Richard D. Vitalis

• State: Florida

• Detail: In 2015, the doctor was arrested on charges that included manslaughter related to the overdose death of a patient. Authorities say he ran one of the last "rogue pain clinics" in one county. The criminal charges are still pending. The Department of Health filed an administrative complaint against him last year but apparently hasn't taken further action. His license is now shown as expired.

• Status: Not convicted

• Doctor: Haridas Dasani

• State: Ohio

• Detail: He was indicted for 28 counts of rape and 27 counts of sexual imposition after being accused of exchanging drugs for sex with three women trying to get sober. In August, he took an Alford plea to three counts of sexual imposition and surrendered his license.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: John Christensen

• State: Florida

• Detail: At least 35 of his patients died of overdoses, but he was charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two. In a plea deal last year, he pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to four years in prison.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: Imo F. Ndem

• State: Georgia

• Detail: In March 2015, after a DEA investigation, he was arrested and charged with illegally dispensing pain medications. In May 2016, he pleaded not guilty of a charge of violating the Georgia Pain management act by operating an unlicensed pain clinic.

• Status: Not convicted

• Doctor: Harriston Bass

• State: Nevada

• Detail: He may have been one of the first doctors convicted of murder for the overdose death of a patient. In 2008, he was convicted of second-degree murder and of illegally selling controlled substances. He was sentenced to 25 years to life.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: Oscar Jameson Stokes

• State: Georgia

• Detail: Earlier this year, he and his wife were indicted on federal drug charges, and authorities seized more than $1.8 million from the couple.  The case is still pending.

• Status: Not convicted

• Doctor: George Mack Bird

• State: Georgia

• Detail: When investigators raided the gynecologist's office and other locations in 2015, they said they found nearly $1 million in cash stashed in boxes and a duffel bag. This past March, he was indicted on 176 charges, accused of running a pill mill and money laundering. The criminal case is pending.

• Status: Not convicted

• Doctor: Narendra Nagareddy

• State: Georgia

• Detail: The Clayton County psychiatrist is accused of killing six patients who died of overdoses between 2011 and 2015. He also faces dozens of other charges, including sexual assault. Authorities have said that three dozen of his patients died while he was prescribing controlled substances to them. He has pleaded not guilty.

• Status: Not convicted

• Doctor: John Patrick Couch

• State: Alabama

• Detail: The disgraced doctor and his colleague, Dr. Xiulu Ruan, prescribed two instant-release fentanyl drugs off-label, getting kickbacks from the drugmaker in return for prescribing massive quantities. As several of their patients died, the doctors used their riches to buy luxury cars, jewelry and homes. In may, Couch was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: Donald Willems

• State: Florida

• Detail: In June 2017, he was sentenced to a decade in federal prison. He was facing state charges of prescription drug trafficking when he was arrested on federal fraud charges  involving sober homes.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: William Martin Valuck

• State: Oklahoma

• Detail: In 2014, at age 71, he was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to eight counts of second-degre murder in the overdose deaths of patients. Testimony said vehicles full of patients would arrive at his clinic to get a combination of prescription meds.

• Status: Convicted

• Doctor: Chris Christensen

• State: Montana

• Detail: Authorities said he provided methadone to two patients who overdosed and died. Chargedwith the two deaths and 20 other felonies involving distribution of dangerous drugs, on Nov. 20, 2017, he was found guilty of all counts. He said he planned to appeal.

• Status: Not yet sentenced

• Doctor: Craig Gialanella

• State: New Jersey

• Detail: The internist was accused in July of selling prescriptions for cash to a drug ring. His criminal case is pending, but the New Jersey medical board suspended his license after his arrest.

• Status: Not convicted