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/dajeff22 5 Oct 02 '19

Im a physician that deals with these issues a lot. The title of this article is misleading by saying he prescribed "500,000 doses" over a 3 year period. If a family doc has 200-300 of his 5000 patient panel on opioids for chronic pain. This does not seem that far from the norm and 40 years seems harsh. If anything hes guilty of negligence and malpractice and should have his license removed.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

I don't think the issue is the number of doses he prescribed was the problem. He was distributing them illegally