Logan County doctor guilty of drug crimes

A Logan County physician was found guilty of drug crimes following a four-day trial after he was convicted of over prescribing controlled substances, court records said. Brian McDevitt, 61, of Chapmanville was found guilty by a federal jury after he wrote prescriptions of hydrocodone, an opioid, on May 17, 2022 and March 29, 2024 and depressant, or Xanax, on May 18, 2022 and March 29, 2024, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of West Virginia. McDevitt previously pled guilty in January 2010 to charges after allowing others to use his federal registration number to distribute prescription diet drug and profiting off of the transaction. to one year He was sentenced and one day followed by three years of supervised release and had to pay a $60,000.