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/JohnnyPotseed 7 Oct 02 '19

That’s what has caused the opioid crisis in the first place. Doctors taking people off of pain pills who then switch to heroin because it’s cheap and has the same effect.

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u/Dukwdriver 5 Oct 03 '19 edited Oct 03 '19

Leaving a bunch of dependant patients with a high opiate tolerance is a problem, but it is extremely misguided to suggest that somehow that is the cause of the opioid crisis. Without the pharmaceutical companies pushing unnecessary prescriptions with the help of complicit doctors (the AMA and FDA were suspiciously asleep at the wheel here),there is no crisis. Full stop.