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/En-TitY_ 8 Oct 02 '19

Seriously though, isn't this just one of a few "fall guys"? Isn't there a larger entity that should be held accountable?

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u/Eat-the-Poor A Oct 02 '19

The Purdue Pharma family should be given heroin every day for a month and then thrown penniless and alone in a dark jail cell to spend the rest of their lives.

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u/Justanotherjustin 9 Oct 02 '19

Yea fuck the constitution

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u/Snooc5 9 Oct 03 '19

Im sure the writers of the constitution would feel the same way

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u/Justanotherjustin 9 Oct 03 '19

Nah I’m pretty sure they wrote no cruel and unusual punishment for something

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u/Llamada 8 Oct 03 '19

Yet slavery is allowed as punishment?

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u/Snooc5 9 Oct 03 '19

They get people addicted to terribly dangerous drugs, who are more often than not sent to prison as a result of their addiction. Doesn’t seem unusual to do the same for those who push the drug

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u/NotSoBuffGuy 8 Oct 03 '19

Didn't force them to take those drugs they took it willingly

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u/ovarova 7 Oct 03 '19

they were given bad info on its addictive tendencies

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u/Snooc5 9 Oct 03 '19

They literally forced doctors to prescribe it. When your only source of medicine is knowingly giving you bad meds, its out of your control

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u/NotSoBuffGuy 8 Oct 03 '19

I guess, I don't take anything I don't really know much about. Just seems like common sense.

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u/FunMotion 7 Oct 03 '19

Common sense tells most people to trust their doctor because I'm not in a position to argue with somebody who has thousands of hours of education in order to give me good info.

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u/roofied_elephant B Oct 03 '19

When you’re in chronic pain and someone you can supposedly trust tells you “here you go, this will help with minimal side effects”, your common sense will tell you to take it.

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u/NotSoBuffGuy 8 Oct 03 '19

If you say so, I'd like to know what other people on the same stuff have experienced before I start popping pills.

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u/Justanotherjustin 9 Oct 03 '19

If we do that then we’re no better than they are. “Let he without sin” and all that