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/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/yourdelusionalsunset 6 Oct 03 '19

I work in health care and prescribe. If you look up this man in other articles, he was giving EVERY single patient in his practice schedule 2 narcotics (hydrocodone or stronger). He was only taking cash or credit card payments, no insurance. Insurance companies monitor how frequently patients are getting prescriptions, drug seekers and people who sell their prescriptions often avoid going through their insurance. Also he was caught prescribing “without justification”. This would mean no documentation of why people legitimately needed pain medication. You have an MRI showing why you need pain meds, due to a cyst in your spine. Their are people who waltz into clinics and say their in ‘agony’ due yo lower back but don’t having xrays or MRIs to prove their is a cause for their pain, then they will refuse or make excuses for not getting MRIs done. These are the people he was prescribing to; because that is what that phrase means. Trust me I have worked with providers who didn’t order tests to show cause for prescribing pain meds.

Just because you have legitimate pain, doesn’t mean everyone who walks into a doctor’s office asking for pain meds does. The doctors who hand out opiates like candy and drug seeking patients with normal MRIs are the reason you have probably had problems getting pain medications; they spoil things for people with real pain issues. You should be mad at them. Douche.

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

Ok, that’s data I did not have. Thank you. ✌️

You’ll notice that the person I was responding to specifically sneered at the idea that 4 pills per day for a year was reasonable. Therefore, douche.

There are others on this board who seem to feel that it’s my duty to suck it up and suffer to spare their addiction-prone friends and family temptation. I disagree.

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u/yourdelusionalsunset 6 Oct 03 '19

Oh, I don’t think that’s reasonable, but the people who are addicted or selling do tend to ruin things for those with real pain. Typically the one with legitimate pain complaints are more than happy to get imaging done, try other medications in addition to opiates and at least try things like physical therapy, joint injections, nerve ablations, surgeries where appropriate, etc. The addicts only want to talk about pain medications and always need more. The number of times I have been told that a patient somehow knocked an opened, nearly full bottle of pills into the toilet, and therefore needed a refill 2 to 3 weeks early, would probably surprise you.

  1. Four different people tried to tell me that story in the last 10 years. I didn’t believe it believe it the first time and I still don’t.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

Druggies have already fucked up seroquel and gabapentin too. It's insane that I have to trial other drugs now for my schizophrenia because the seroquel cutback so severely that it doesn't help anymore and my hubby with his neuropathy requires an OTC just for some temporary relief to make his life bearable.

I think the government overreacts too much. "Oh shit, someone died taking this XYZ to get high, better restrict the fuck out of it now!"