Accomplice Of Ambler Doc Who Sold $5M In Pills Sentenced

AMBLER, PA – A co-conspirator in a pill mill scheme to illegally sell more than $5 million in prescription drugs has been sentenced to prison.

Azad Khan, 64, of Villanova will spend the next two years in prison, joining fellow medical doctor and Ambler native Alan Summers, 79, behind bars.

Khan and Summers, 79, operated a medical clinic on South Broad Street in Philadelphia, where they illegally sold prescriptions Suboxone and Klonopin, according to police. Suboxone is a brand name for a drug used to treat opiate addiction and Klonopin is a depressant that is clinically used to treat seizures, panic disorder, and movement disorder.

Summers and Khan, along with other doctors whom Summers employed, did not conduct the medical exams or mental health exams required to legally prescribe the meds, authorities said. Fellow doctor Keyhosrow Parsia was also charged.

Many of the customers who frequented the "NASAPT" (National Association for Substance Abuse-Prevention & Treatment) clinic were not real patients at all, but rather drug dealers or drug addicts who turned around and resold the meds, according to officials.

"Dr. Alan Summers cared more for his financial gain, than his oath as a doctor," United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen said in announcing the sentence. "His actions helped fuel the opioid epidemic and the illegal distribution of prescription drugs."

Khan was convicted of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and two counts of distribution of controlled substance. Sommers was convicted on charges of distributing controlled substances, distribution of controlled substances, health care fraud, money laundering, and related counts. In addition to his prison sentence, he also faces two years supervised release, and must pay both $4.6 million in restitution and a $1,700 special assessment.

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