Dr. Anissa Maroof, 48, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for distributing and dispensing drugs illegally.
Maroof, of Potomac, unlawfully distributed Xanax, Adderall and Buprenorphine to patients, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland. She is a board-certified in addiction psychiatry with a practice in Bethesda.
She also was sentenced to two years of supervised release, with the first nine months served in home detention.
Maroof pleaded guilty to distributing these drugs between January 2019 and June 2022, “outside the scope of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Maroof provided patients from West Virginia with prescriptions even though the patients indicated they were selling their excess supply illegally. She also regularly prescribed controlled substances to patients without providing them with therapeutic services, according to her guilty plea.
She admitted to calling in prescriptions to pharmacies without first seeing the patient and telling the patient to leave cash under her office door. She also admitted she advised patients on how to split filling their prescriptions between different pharmacies.
