A Lackawanna County jury has found former Schuylkill County doctor Stephanie A. Tarapchak guilty of eight of 13 charges against her, including delivering drugs resulting in a death, endangering the welfare of children, and insurance fraud.

Tarapchak, 46, of Ashland, remains in prison awaiting sentencing.She was accused of providing drugs that caused the overdose death of a 52-year-old patient, smuggling drugs in jail, and of giving her own teenage daughter Xanax, on which the child overdosed.Tarapchak's trial began Sept. 23 and was found guilty on Tuesday of insurance fraud, theft by deception, corrupt organizations, perjury, endangering the welfare of children, drug delivery resulting in death, selling or giving drugs to a dependent person, and refusal to keep records.A charges of contraband/controlled substance was dismissed, and the jury found Tarapchak not guilty of conspiracy-theft by deception, recklessly endangering another person, acquiring or obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation, and administration of a controlled substance by a practitioner.Tarapchak was charged by the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General.According to a criminal complaint filed by Special Agent Douglas Hilyard, between January 2008 and August 2011, Tarapchak unlawfully prescribed and dispensed thousands of controlled substances including the highly addictive drugs oxycodone and hydrocodone. She dispensed drugs to herself, paramours, patients and family members from her office supplies; for no legitimate medical purpose; without performing physical examinations; and in exchange for services. She also sold them.Tarapchak, who was addicted to methamphetamine, also became intimate with a man who she got hooked on powerful narcotic painkillers, the complaint states. She withheld the drugs to force him to comply with her demands, which included selling OxyContin to college students and giving the proceeds to her, from March 2010 to May 2010.In November 2010, Tarapchak's 16-year-old daughter overdosed in school on Xanax supplied by Tarapchak. The child's father sued for custody, and Tarapchak lied under oath about her involvement, and about violating previous court orders concerning her children.She was sentenced to 10 consecutive weekends in jail. During her jail time, she smuggling amphetamines, Vicodin and Ambien into jail by hiding the drugs in her rectum.On June 10, 2011, 52-year-old Thomas Kromer of Mahanoy City died of a prescription drug overdose. He had filled a total of 15 prescriptions written by Tarapchak in the four months preceding his death. An autopsy found he died of multiple drug toxicity. No illegal drugs were found in the home, and Tarapchak was the sole prescriber.She also billed insurance companies for patient visits and procedures that were never performed, splitting the payments with her staff and patients. Because she herself lacked insurance, she billed a friend's medical insurance for her own personal procedures.