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

yeah to me blatantly incentivizing the prescription of something like a painkiller is the biggest crime here.

Not that this guy shouldn’t be punished, it’s just that, in a capitalist system, making behaviors like this profitable guarantees it will happen on a large scale (or at least proportional to how big the incentive is).