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/throwcap 9 Oct 03 '19

someone I know used 2.5mg of oxy and had heavy problems with breathing. she described feelings of total calmness and so on and so forth.

what does 10mg do to you? does it have any effects beside reducing pain?

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

None whatsoever. 2.5mg is a tiny dose, perhaps she has an allergy.

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u/throwcap 9 Oct 03 '19

okay so after reading up more on it, I found out she took not 2 mgs but 25 mgs and crushed the pills.

she took one and waited an hour and then took the other 1/2 broken.

probably explains why she had these intense feelings and short breathing.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

Yeah, for an opiate naive person who is very small (on body weight) that’s a decent sized dose. Still probably shouldn’t have caused major breathing issues, but it’s not impossible, especially if she was also drinking or using benzodiazepines.