Grand Jury Charges Eastern Kentucky Clinic Operator with Conspiring to Illegally Distribute Drugs

Jeremy T. Bryson, the owner of the Talmadge Group Inc that operated Appalachian Family Medicine in Paintsville, Kentucky, has been charged with the following by a Grand Jury: 1 count each of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances in an unauthorized manner from January 2021 to January 2022, using money derived from criminal activity to buy a pickup truck, and conspiracy to illegally use a prescribing registration number assigned to another person.

According to the indictment, Bryson’s father owned the building that housed the clinic, and Bryson paid his father rent, including a monthly fee to act as a consultant at the clinic.

It, also, reads, the indictment against Jeremy Bryson identified the father only as D.B., but the details of the case match those in a case against Don V. Bryson, a physician who pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to issue prescriptions for pain pills using another doctor’s registration number.

Don Bryson surrendered his medical license in 2012 over concerns that his treatment of patients did not meet minimum standards, according to court records.

Records from the earlier case showed that the Brysons employed doctors hired from a temp agency and imposed limits on their medical decision-making, restricting them from ordering urine tests or pill counts and discouraging them from reducing patient dosages.

In that case, Don Bryson admitted that when a new doctor who didn’t have a DEA registration number required for prescribing controlled substances, he and his son authorized him to use the registration number of another doctor who previously worked at the clinic. Afterwards, the doctor wrote 79 prescriptions for more than 6,900 pills over a four-day period, using the other doctor’s registration number.

Don Bryson and J.B. also discouraged doctors at Appalachian Family Medicine from reducing the dosage of pain pills people received, Don Bryson acknowledged. Don Bryson admitted he and J.B. agreed to use the prescribing number of a doctor who had left the clinic to issue prescriptions in September 2021. Don Bryson pleaded guilty in June but has not been sentenced. He agreed to forfeit the building where the clinic operated.

According to the indictment against Jeremy Bryson, it includes a count under which the government plans to seize property if he is convicted, including $41,760 taken from bank accounts and the pickup truck that he paid $67,466 for the Dodge Ram 2500 in Lexington using money derived from criminal conduct, the indictment alleges.

Court records also read that Don and Jeremy Bryson were not charged in each other’s cases.



All are considered innocent till proven guilty in a court of law.