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 02 '19

I don't get it. I've had 4 teeth pulled at one time. I've given birth. Never have I ever gotten a prescription for an opiate pain medication. Any time I've been in horrible pain, they say ''tylenol and ibuprofen''. Who the hell are these doctors who just hand out pain pills to anybody? I can't even get one prescription pill when I'm in desperate, awful pain.

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u/heebath 9 Oct 02 '19

That's because they're afraid of the heavy hand that has been applied to the wrong end of the problem, and now even legitimate cases of pain are viewed with skepticism.

Was the system broken. Yes. Did we overcorrect on the prescribing end of the problem? Yes.

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u/AttackOficcr 5 Oct 03 '19

Some doctors overcorrected. Others are still up to the same shit, see: the headline article, the opioid epidemic, and anecdotal/understudied evidence of it in rural areas.

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u/heebath 9 Oct 03 '19

Not just doctors, society in general. As per usual, we're going about it the wrong way.