Patrick T. Code, 60, a Medford Podiatrist, pleaded guilty for using fraud and deception to obtain controlled substances which he used to feed his personal addiction. According to court documents, for several years between June 2016 and May 2019, the defendant wrote prescriptions for 2,876 – 50 mg tablets of tramadol and 78 – 10 mg tablets of zolpidem using the names of fake patients or the names and information of relatives who were not aware of the prescriptions. The defendant acquired the controlled substances from pharmacies falsely claiming the drugs were for others and used the drugs to feed his own drug addiction.
