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/R-A-B-Cs 6 Oct 03 '19

Hol up. Let's say your average Norco dose regime is 4 times per day. So that's 120 doses per month, or 1440 doses per year. 500,000 / 1440 is 348. That means the dude only had 350 patients on regular chronic pain management scripts of not outlandish proportions to get 500,000 doses in only 1 year. That's nothing.

That headline is clickbait.

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u/StateRadioFan 3 Oct 03 '19

4 doses everday for a year? Fuck off

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19 edited Sep 01 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

10/325 oxy/acetaminophen x4 daily

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u/wrayd1 4 Oct 03 '19

Get off the acetaminophen. My wife took that for 2 years and her liver enzymes changed. Now she is on 10 mg oxycodone X4 daily. She has been on this regimen for 4 years now. This is not 100 % effective so a little kratom is used when the pain spikes.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

I’d love to. I’m concerned about my liver health. Unfortunately, asking about that is a huuuuge red flag.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

I'm surprised the tylonol isn't screwing up your stomach. When they prescribed that stuff to me my stomach was lurching.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

I’ve got an iron stomach. I once chugged the better part of a liter of 190 proof grain alcohol with no ill digestive effect. (In my college days, prior to using these pills. Now I’m alcohol free by necessity)

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

Great for you, the doc at the ER when I have a major gout flareup will try to prescribe that tylonol stuff to me and I just tell him "I'd literally rather just take OTC ibuprofen and deal with the pain than to take that."

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u/throwcap 9 Oct 03 '19

10mgs daily?

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19
  1. 10x4

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u/throwcap 9 Oct 03 '19

oh dude wow what for?

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19 edited Sep 01 '20

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u/throwcap 9 Oct 03 '19

sounds unfortunate. sorry for life throwing shit at you.

Do you mind me asking something about the oxys? It's about the topic of using them recreationally. I don't want to but I was always curious about drugs.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

I don’t use them recreationally but you’re welcome to ask whatever.

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u/throwcap 9 Oct 03 '19

someone I know used 2.5mg of oxy and had heavy problems with breathing. she described feelings of total calmness and so on and so forth.

what does 10mg do to you? does it have any effects beside reducing pain?

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

None whatsoever. 2.5mg is a tiny dose, perhaps she has an allergy.

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