The Iowa Board of Pharmacy has sanctioned a pharmacist for dispensing drugs without a prescription, and lifted restrictions on a physician convicted of felony narcotics distribution.
The board alleges pharmacist Joshua Davis of Corydon self-reported dispensing a variety of prescription medications to a friend without any legitimate prescription from a health care provider. There were about 23 fraudulent prescriptions dispensed by Davis “over a period of a few years,” the board alleges — although the board has not disclosed when that was or where Davis was working.
The board also alleges that in pharmacy records that Davis altered the name and birthdate of his friend to conceal the fraudulent nature of the drug dispensing.
The board charged Davis with knowingly making misleading, deceptive or fraudulent representations in the practice of pharmacy or engaging in unethical conduct that is harmful or detrimental to the public; diverting prescription drugs from a pharmacy for personal use or distribution; forging or altering a prescription; and practicing outside the scope of his profession.
To resolve the case, Davis and the board agreed to a settlement that calls for his license to be placed on probationary status for two years, during which time he will be subject to some form of worksite monitoring. Davis also agreed to pay a $1,000 civil penalty and complete 10 hours of education on law or ethics.
State and federal records indicate that for the past several years, Davis has worked at Your Neighborhood Pharmacy, an affiliate of Wayne County Hospital, in Corydon.
The Iowa Capital Dispatch was unable to reach Davis for comment Friday.
Other pharmacy board actions
Other Iowa health professionals whose disciplinary cases recently came before the Board of Pharmacy include:
— Dr. Troy Adolfson, 55, of Ankeny, a physician who sought reinstatement of his Controlled Substances Act registration allowing him to prescribe narcotics.
In 2019, Adolfson surrendered his South Dakota medical license, as well as his Drug Enforcement Administration license, after being criminally charged with felony narcotics distribution.
In that case, Adolfson admitted that between January 2017 and April 2017, he knowingly and intentionally distributed oxycodone by writing prescriptions for 60 to 140 pills to a co-worker and two other people, who then had the prescriptions filled at a pharmacy. Adolfson said the three individuals gave him the oxycodone in exchange for $50 each and a portion of the pills. “I estimate I prescribed approximately 1,400 pills of oxycodone in this manner,” Adolfson told the court.
Adolfson was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $20,000, according to the court records. More than two years after Adolfson admitted his conduct, the Iowa Board of Medicine issued Adolfson a warning and placed his medical license on probation for five years, during which time he was barred from prescribing, administering or dispensing controlled substances for the treatment of chronic pain.
In 2024, Adolfson entered into a voluntary restriction of his CSA registration. In 2025, the Iowa Board of Medicine lifted its restrictions on Adolfson’s medical license, after which Adolfson sought reinstatement of his CSA registration without restriction.
After Adolfson provided the Board of Pharmacy with a letter explaining his past conduct and rehabilitation, the board concluded he had provided sufficient evidence of rehabilitation to warrant reinstatement of the registration. Adolfson, the board said, had “demonstrated he is committed to maintaining his sobriety and is passionate about continuing in his profession as a physician.”
The reinstatement requires Adolfson to participate in the Iowa Professional Health Program or, if he is deemed ineligible, he must submit to board monitoring for three years.
The board records make no mention of the fact that in February 2025, Adolfson was arrested and charged with drunken driving. Police alleged he was driving through a Costco parking lot when he collided with another vehicle. The other party to the accident summoned police, citing concerns that Adolfson appeared to be drunk.
Police alleged Adolfson admitted to drinking and had a blood-alcohol level of .270 — more than three times the legal limit for driving. He later pleaded guilty to first-offense drunken driving and sentenced to one year of probation. He was discharged from probation after six months, court records show.
— Alexander Goodwin, 32, of Camanche, who recently agreed to surrender his pharmacist’s license to the board. The board alleges Goodwin admitted stealing “two Adderall tablets” from a Walgreen’s store in Clinton where he was employed, as well as an unspecified amount of other drugs from the Clinton store and a Walgreen’s store in Dubuque.
The board charged Goodwin with knowingly making misleading, deceptive or fraudulent representations in the practice of pharmacy or engaging in unethical conduct that is harmful or detrimental to the public; diverting prescription drugs from a pharmacy for personal use or distribution; and habitual intoxication or addiction to the use of drugs.
As part of the recent settlement in which Goodwin agreed to surrender his pharmacist’s license, he also agreed he will not be eligible to seek reinstatement for at least one year.
Court records show that in June 2025, Goodwin was criminally charged with theft and prohibited acts for the alleged misappropriation of drugs from the Clinton store. Police alleged that an internal audit identified 60 missing oxycodone pills from the pharmacy’s inventory.
According to police, surveillance footage from the store indicated that on one occasion, Goodwin stole, and then swallowed, an oxycodone pill while on duty at the store, and that an inventory showed losses at the store involving 80 different types of medications.
Police also alleged Goodwin admitted that he had been previously caught on video attempting to steal medications while working at the Hartig Drug store in Savanna, Illinois.
The Iowa criminal charges were later dismissed when Clinton County prosecutors said they couldn’t locate the general manager of the Walgreen’s store to testify.
