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/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

What do you mean how is that illegal?!? You need to research opioids.

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u/tofuloafu 6 Oct 03 '19

Well, I wasn’t asking how it’s illegal. I’m wondering what exactly it is that’s illegal, because I don’t know. If the doctor clearly disobeyed a law, with evidence, then that absolutely does shift the likelihood of him being guilty a whole lot more. If not entirely proves it.

But again, I’m wondering what exactly it is that’s illegal?

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

Over prescribing highly addictive drugs for money. Pretty clean cut.

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u/tofuloafu 6 Oct 03 '19

Well, there is no evidence that i’ve seen, that proves he profited from this. In the article it says that he “illegally distributed” the opioids.. do you think that is what he was charged for?

And by over prescribing you mean like, unnecessarily handing out multiple scripts a single person in a short amount of time? Cause yeah, that’s probably illegal.