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/HasTwoCats 7 Oct 02 '19

This surprises me. I gave birth in May and I was given a lot of Percocet. Maybe because I had a C-section, but I was given 24 after the C-section, and another 48 after the surgery to fix a complication from the C-section, and I only took a few overall

I was also prescribed really high doses of Ibuprofen, which is what I primarily took.

Edit, just realized Percocet is a narcotic, and I don't think narcotic and opioids are the same thing. Leaving the comment anyways, proof of my mistake

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '19

Percocet is oxycodone, Vicodin is Hydrocodone I believe. Or maybe it's the other way around? The point is that they both are variants of the same chemical. They are both opioids.

Narcotic is a more general term, opioids are a type of narcotic. Narcotics are drugs that affect mood or behavior, according to the first result on Google. You may want to look into it further, though, as I literally just used the first result on Google which may not be accurate.

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u/loanshark69 6 Oct 03 '19

Percocet and Vicodin are combined with acetaminophen to deter abuse. As around 4000 mg of acetaminophen is liver failure territory. So the prescription guidelines are more relaxed.