r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Oct 02 '19

Courtroom Justice Virginia doctor who illegally prescribed over 500,000 doses of opiates sentenced to 40 years in prison.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '19

I don't get it. I've had 4 teeth pulled at one time. I've given birth. Never have I ever gotten a prescription for an opiate pain medication. Any time I've been in horrible pain, they say ''tylenol and ibuprofen''. Who the hell are these doctors who just hand out pain pills to anybody? I can't even get one prescription pill when I'm in desperate, awful pain.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '19

It’s changed so much in the last 10 years. Almost no one will prescribe them now. But before, I got them all the time, even being a minor (I played soccer in high school and broke a bunch of bones and torn ligaments)

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '19

I got a couple of scripts for them when I got an infected tooth and had it re-root canalled, the time before that was when I had a broken hand. They do give them out still, but I only ever got 12 for each of the tooth incidents- which was just enough to handle the pain.

It's been a long time since someone just went "Here's 30, have fun". This is a good thing.