Judge orders local veterinarian
to complete ARD program
06/11/2009
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NEW CASTLE - An Ellwood City veterinarian accused of putting an anti-attention deficit hyperactivity disorder drug into her then-boyfriend's fitness supplement could have her criminal record cleared after completing an accelerated rehabilitative disposition program.
Dr. Cynthia Maro, 46, of 303 Foch St., Ellwood City, had an ARD hearing Wednesday before Lawrence County Judge J. Craig Cox, according to the judge's staff. Paperwork on the judge's order will be filed today with the Lawrence County Prothonotary's office.
Maro, a veterinarian at the Ellwood Animal Hospital, 728
Lawrence Ave., Ellwood City, was charged in December with criminal conspiracy to acquire a controlled substance, acquisition of a controlled substance by fraud, illegal dispensing of a controlled substance by a health practitioner and reckless endangerment.
According to documents filed in the office of District Judge Jerry Cartwright, Maro wrote two prescriptions last August and September for the drug Adderall for a dog owned by her office manager, Connie Glavan, who was charged as a co-defendant with conspiracy and acquisition of a controlled substance by fraud. She agreed last week to also enter the ARD program.
Adderall is a drug often used to treat ADHD, according to the Drugs.com Web site.
Glavan, 39, of 601 Denny Drive, New Castle, filled the prescriptions and gave the drugs to Maro, who state attorney general's office agents said put the Adderall into protein shakes, which her boyfriend, Bruce Hall, of Ellwood City, drank. Hall was sickened by the shakes but
recovered.