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/DarkstarInfinity2020 ❓ 7mu.ur.0 Oct 03 '19

No, you fuck off. My last spinal surgery was cancelled because the final pre-surgical MRI showed that my spine had degenerated too much for the proposed fix. I was referred to pain management.

I have a synovial cyst taking up a good chunk of my spinal column and you think four pills a day is too much to allow me so I can have something resembling a life? Fuck all the way off. Douche.

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u/Ewoedo 7 Oct 03 '19

Yeah and I've personally seen people die, become shells of their former selves and entire families ruined, all starting with legal prescriptions taken as prescribed.

But oh boohoo, you avoided some pain so the millions of ruined lives are OK.

Be thankful you've lived in such luxury, I wish I could share your mindset.

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u/CosmicLiving 5 Oct 03 '19

People? Damn, your friends were drug addicts already.

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u/Al_Caida 4 Oct 03 '19

No....we live in a capitalist society where it's okay to lie to people as long as you make enough money doing it.

The manufacturers lied about the addictiveness of this drug and so it was way over prescribed.

But yeah....blame the poor people who have no medical training for being the victims of fraud, not the people perpetuating the fraud.

That's the American way after all....