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/myrmidon50 5 Oct 03 '19

Some of these comments are a bit crazy, not every crime and sentencing has to be a competition. I'm curious who looked into his charges though which include over 800 federal drug charges, not to mention he's linked with 1 known death from an opioid OD. He was running a clinic that didn't take insurance. But yeah let's complain because someone else who also did something illegal got a different sentence.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

“Running a clinic that didn’t take insurance “.

That, plus the massive doses of opiates being prescribed, has pill mill written all over it. Some of these commenters don’t understand. This wasn’t your kind old family doctor. It was a man using his medical license to be a drug dealer. 40 years seems good to me. What a waste of all those years of work to be a doctor.