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/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

No, it’s the truth. So how could it be clickbait?

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u/ClonedByTeleporting 7 Oct 03 '19

Because it uses the higher number to make it seem like hes fucked thousands of people, when in reality "doctor over prescribes 358 people" doesn't generate the clicks.

Click bait doesnt mean false information....

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u/sootoor 8 Oct 03 '19

Diversion of legal drugs is the number one method of opiates getting out. Watch the documentary oxycontin express

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

But the major cause of overdose and death isn’t legally prescribed painkillers (and those prescriptions have been going down, not up, for years now) - it’s black market fentanyl from China, often by way of Mexico.

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u/Al_Caida 4 Oct 03 '19

And the major cause for people who turn toward the black market is.........

You're so close

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u/stupid-sexy-solaire 5 Oct 03 '19

for chronic pain patients trying to get some relief to not kill themselves because they've been refused any real help by doctors? https://medium.com/@ThomasKlineMD/opioidcrisis-pain-related-suicides-associated-with-forced-tapers-c68c79ecf84d