Complete Care Pharmacy, LLC; Decision and Order

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration I. Introduction On April 2, 2025, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA or Government) issued an Order to Show Cause (OSC) to Complete Care Pharmacy, LLC, of Corrales, New Mexico (Registrant). Request for Final Agency Action (RFAA), Exhibit (RFAAX) 1, at 1, 6. The OSC proposed the revocation of Registrant's DEA Certificate of Registration, number FC4167121, alleging that its registration is inconsistent with the public interest. Id. at 1 (citing 21 U.S.C. 823(g)(1) , 824(a)(4) ). Specifically, the OSC alleged that Registrant's owner and pharmacist-in-charge (PIC) issued 26 controlled substance prescriptions when he no longer had state prescriptive authority and that Registrant, acting through its owner and PIC who had also written the prescriptions without authority, then filled these 26 prescriptions, even though it knew they were issued by a person who lacked prescriptive authority. On June 2, 2025, the Government submitted an RFAA to the Administrator requesting that the Agency  [ 1 ] issue a default final order revoking Registrant's registration. RFAA, at 1, 4-5. After carefully reviewing the entire record and conducting the analysis as set forth in detail below, the Agency grants the Government's request for final agency action and revokes Registrant's registration. As a preliminary matter, this Decision addresses whether Registrant is in default and finds that it is. Thereafter, this Decision makes specific…