From staff reports
The Pennsylvania Superior Court this week upheld the sentence of former Clarion physician Thomas Radecki.
Radecki, who will turn 72 next month, was sentenced in June 2016 to a state prison term of 11 years and one month to 22 years and two months for illegally prescribing controlled substances from his clinics in the area.
He had been found guilty following a two-week trial in April 2016 of 12 felony charges that included nine counts of prescribing controlled substances by a practitioner and one count each of conspiracy to prescribe controlled substances by a practitioner, corrupt organizations/employee and dealing in illegal proceeds.
Radecki had clinics in Seneca, Clarion, DuBois and Kane and dispensed suboxone, typically used to wean people off heroin. He also prescribed a number of other medications.
Radecki had as many as 1,000 patients going to his four clinics at the peak of his practice. He had also been accused of having inappropriate sexual relations with some of his female patients.
But the Superior Court ruled against Radecki and affirmed the sentence, which he is serving at the Mercer state prison.