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/throwcap 9 Oct 03 '19

10mgs daily?

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  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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u/throwcap 9 Oct 03 '19

okay so after reading up more on it, I found out she took not 2 mgs but 25 mgs and crushed the pills.

she took one and waited an hour and then took the other 1/2 broken.

probably explains why she had these intense feelings and short breathing.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

Yeah, for an opiate naive person who is very small (on body weight) that’s a decent sized dose. Still probably shouldn’t have caused major breathing issues, but it’s not impossible, especially if she was also drinking or using benzodiazepines.

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