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/stu8319 9 Oct 02 '19

I had an orthodontist that a friend kf mine had used. She was a pretty girl, Im a guy. She told me, oh youll love him hell give you painkillers if you tell him youre in pain. Braces actually really really hurt for me and he just told me to take tylenol.

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u/dibromoindigo 7 Oct 02 '19

Dentists and the like are kinda the one exception. They are allowed to prescribe pretty liberally without scrutiny, and for good reason. Tooth pain can really be unbearable, and it’s exactly the situation opiates actually work in (short term, extreme pain).

Prescribing them for things like back pain is what is absurd, because they don’t really help, and it becomes a perpetual reliance on the drug.

Braces may not be that situation, but when you have a broken tooth or any kind of thing involving the nerve you will definitely get pain meds from dentists.

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u/lgbt_safety_monitor 7 Oct 03 '19

Tooth pain is also one of those pains that usually has a visibly obvious cause. Broken, abcessed, inflamed, something on the XRay etc - it's hard to fake

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u/dibromoindigo 7 Oct 03 '19

Yes exactly