An Auburn dentist was charged Monday on the allegation she illegally wrote prescriptions for narcotic painkillers for her common-law husband.

Gilda V. Jusino-Delpozo, 46, of 19 Cayuga St., Auburn, was booked at the Auburn Police Department following an investigation by the state Department of Health's Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement.

She was charged with the felonies of criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance, first-degree falsifying business records and fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Jusino-Delpozo is accused in a criminal complaint filed by state Department of Health investigators of writing prescriptions for oxycodone, hydrocodone and valium in her husband's name on 27 occasions between June 9, 2005, and Jan. 28, 2007.

She is accused of picking up the prescriptions herself and paying the co-pays required under her husband's employer insurance at local Kinney, Rite Aid, Wal-Mart and Wegmans pharmacies.

In recent years, Jusino-Delpozo has practiced

dentistry at Auburn Dental Associates at 80 North St., Auburn, and at the Auburn Correctional Facility.

In a statement Jusino-Delpozo gave Monday to investigators William Granato and Harold Stone, she said that she prescribed the narcotics to her husband to help him with debilitating migraines.

“I began to prescribe some doses of oxycodone, hydrocodone ... primarily darvocet (valium) ... to relieve his headache pain so he didn't have to suffer and so he could go to work and function normally. I controlled his medication supply because I didn't want him to self-medicate himself and became addicted to drugs,” Jusino-Delpozo wrote.

Jusino-Delpozo also is accused of writing a prescription for her husband and filling it at the pharmacy at the Wal-Mart store in Auburn Jan. 19 and Jan. 28. Surveillance camera footage from one of the alleged Wal-Mart prescription transactions was included in the criminal complaint investigators filed.

Jusino-Delpozo said she did not write any prescriptions for anyone besides her husband.

Jusino-Delpozo graduated in 1993 from dentistry school. She was admitted to practice dentistry in New York in 1998.

“In retrospect .. what I did was improper and (I) regret my actions, I value my (dentistry license) and I want to continue on my chosen career path,” she wrote.

Her next court date is scheduled in Auburn City Court for May 1. Her bail was set at $20,000 cash or $40,000 bond.

Staff writer Amaris Elliott-Engel can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 282 or at amaris.elliot-engel@lee.net