The facts
The Drug Enforcement Administration has revoked the controlled-substance registration of Katherine Curtis, N.P., a nurse practitioner registered in Indiana, effective November 13, 2026. The agency's Decision and Order revokes DEA Certificate of Registration No. MS5411765 and denies her pending applications to renew or modify it.
Curtis never requested a hearing or answered the allegations against her. Under federal regulation 21 CFR 1301.43, that failure deemed her in default, which counts as an admission of the factual allegations.
The admissions are ugly. To patient J.H., Curtis prescribed a roughly monthly cocktail from July 2024 through May 2025: dextroamphetamine-amphetamine, a Schedule II stimulant; oxycodone, a Schedule II opioid; oxycodone-acetaminophen; fentanyl, a Schedule II opioid; and pregabalin. To patient C.D., from October 2024 to May 2025, she prescribed clonazepam, hydrocodone-acetaminophen, oxycodone-acetaminophen, tramadol, dextroamphetamine-amphetamine, alprazolam, and zolpidem, and she administered ketamine and esketamine, both Schedule III anesthetics.
To patient J.S., she issued four oxycodone prescriptions and a stimulant prescription between February and April 2025. On April 9, 2025, she prescribed dextroamphetamine-amphetamine with no justification or notation in the patient record and without informed consent about the dangers of combining an opioid and a stimulant.
To patient T.H., she issued opioid and stimulant prescriptions between January and March 2025 without establishing a medical condition to support them. She obtained no proper medical history, performed no psychiatric, addiction, or physical evaluation, and instead relied on T.H.'s own claim of having been prescribed stimulants before. She prescribed high doses of opioids in rapidly increasing quantities to a patient who had never been prescribed opioids, without determining the cause of the pain. She never consulted Indiana's INSPECT prescription monitoring database and never ordered urine drug screening. She prescribed the opioids via telehealth without first examining T.H. in person. The agency found this "constituted a departure from the standard of care in Indiana and was outside the usual course of professional practice in violation of federal and state law."
A DEA-retained independent medical expert concluded the prescriptions "violated minimal medical standards applicable to the practice of medicine in Indiana." The order notes Curtis "has not accepted responsibility for the proven violations", "has made no representations regarding his future compliance", and "has not demonstrated that she can be trusted with registration".
Our take
What the fuck was this nurse practitioner even doing? Her idea of a medical practice was to stare at a fucking webcam and ask, What drugs do you want today? The DEA’s order is a 40-page receipt for a two-year drug trafficking spree disguised as telehealth. This absolute cunt prescribed fentanyl, oxycodone, and speed to patients she never examined, never diagnosed, and never even bothered to check against the state’s fucking prescription database. She was a vending machine with a nursing license, and the out of order sign is now permanently taped to her career because the DEA finally unplugged her ass.
Let’s be specific about her medical genius. For patient T.H., she prescribed high-dose opioids to someone who’d never had them before, without finding out what the pain was from, without a physical exam, and without a urine test. Her entire diagnostic process was, You say you used to have stimulants? Cool, here’s more. That’s not a standard of care; that’s the standard for a fucking street dealer trying to move product before the cops show up. The DEA’s own expert said she couldn’t even meet the *minimal* medical standards for Indiana, which is like failing a test where the only question is are you currently on fire?
And then, when the DEA finally sent her the paperwork asking her to explain this pharmaceutical clown show, her defense was fucking silence. She didn’t request a hearing. She didn’t answer the charges. She just tucked her tail between her legs and hoped the government would forget. Under the rules, that silence is an admission of every single allegation. So she’s not just a negligent practitioner; she’s a coward who couldn’t even hire a lawyer to lie for her. Most pill mill operators at least put up a bullshit fight. This bitch forfeited by not showing up to her own professional execution.
The final, beautiful fuck-you from the DEA is a pronoun error in the last paragraph. After pages of “she,” the order states Curtis “has made no representations regarding his future compliance.” They revoked her license so thoroughly they couldn’t even be bothered to get her gender right in the death certificate. When the federal government misgenders you while taking your career out back and shooting it, you haven’t just lost. You’ve been erased from the fucking universe. Good riddance to this walking, talking malpractice lawsuit. May her next job involve a hairnet and a deep fryer, far away from any controlled substances.
