A woman from Front Royal, Virginia, pleaded guilty to running a painkiller distribution ring over the past decade with the help of her loved ones and an Arlington-based physician.
Candie Marie Calix, 40, “nominally worked” as an Arlington physician’s office manager from 2012 to 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said this week.
The doctor gave her prescriptions for nearly 50,000 oxycodone pills — roughly 40,000 pills in 30-mg doses, and over 9,000 pills in 15-mg doses.
The doctor prescribed in that same period similar amounts for numerous Calix family members, including her husband, mother, brother, grandparents and great-grandmother.