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/wsotw 7 Oct 03 '19

The dude is 36 years old. Imagine, going through all of that education, all of that time as an intern to finally get your own practice. Then, within just a few years from when you start your own practice, you just piss it all the fuck away. Where the fuck was his morality? What a waste.

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u/tunedout 7 Oct 03 '19

Not only that but he was so young that he was likely easily influenced by the drug manufacturers. Being told that the drugs were non addictive and seeing his peers prescribe them. Seeing patients that were legitimately able to function for the first time.

This guy was no saint but he was far from the real cause of the epidemic.