Federal authorities revealed to FOXNews.com that Dr. Conrad Murray is not licensed to administer certain levels of controlled medications in the state, and that if he gave Demerol or Oxycontin to Jackson, per reports, it would have been illegal.
Murray is licensed to distribute them in Nevada and Texas and could have gotten them there, but bringing them to California would have been illegal. He could have administered drugs other doctors provided or that Jackson had ordered online from abroad, which is also illegal.
Murray’s lawyers claim the doctor didn’t give Demerol or OxyContin to Jackson. Murray’s attorney, Ed Chernoff, released a statement Monday declaring “Dr. Murray didn’t prescribe or administer anything that should have killed Michael Jackson.”
Federal law requires doctors to register with the Drug Enforcement Agency in the jurisdiction in which they administer, dispense or prescribe controlled substances ranging in potency from extra-strength cough syrup to potent painkillers. Murray is licensed to practice medicine in three states, and he is required to register with the DEA in all three if he wants to be able to provide equal drug treatment to all his patients.
“Dr. Murray has DEA registration numbers in Nevada and Texas, but he does not have one in California,” a federal law enforcement official told FOXNews.com. “You absolutely have to have a registration number to prescribe controlled substances, and there was nothing in California.”
Miranda Sevcik, a spokeswoman for Murray’s legal team, said she did not have information about the doctor’s DEA registration status in California.
“We don’t have that information,” she said. “If it’s relevant to the investigation, I’m sure it’ll be looked into. If it’s not, it won’t be.”
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