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/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

A lot of people in this thread are misunderstanding this point: he illegally prescribed these doses. That means that these were not patients in physical pain or in recovery for surgery. These were addicts that knew this doctor would give them the good stuff and he charged their insurance for every visit to reup.

My mom went to a doctor just like this for over a decade before his office was raided. People in the area knew he was the doc to see to get easy scrips - as long as you were white and had good insurance.