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Overprescribing Pain Medications Can Lead to Serious Criminal Charges

Providing patients with medications for controlling their pain when they suffer an injury or after surgery is an important duty of a doctor. In some cases, this involves prescribing powerful narcotic and opioid drugs. The main pain-relieving drug in these prescriptions are opium and codeine. While these drugs can relieve pain, they come with serious risks. Patients can become addicted to these drugs. In addition, the prescribing of these medications can lead to a patient’s drug overdose and death.

Overuse of powerful opioids, such as Dilaudid, Percocet, Vicodin, and OxyContin (oxycodone), has become a national crisis and is regularly spotlighted in the news. This has led to an increased focus and prosecution of doctors who prescribe these medications to their patients. In some cases, physicians who prescribe these medications can be unfairly charged with committing a crime. These charges can be extremely serious and have long-term consequences on a doctor’s life—such as loss of his medical license, dramatically higher insurance premiums, loss of employment, and a permanent criminal record.


‘This is just the beginning’: Scope of opioid lawsuits widens to include hospital accreditor

Government officials grappling with the nationwide opioid crisis, from the sandy beaches of Florida to the far reaches of the Alaskan frontier, have filed lawsuits against drug companies at a steady clip this year. These suits seek to hold manufacturers and distributors financially responsible for the strain on public services that drug addiction has caused.

Now local officials in West Virginia — the state with the nation’s highest drug death rate — have taken aim at a different target: the medical experts who recommended their use. This past week the cities and towns of Huntington, Charleston, Kenova, and Ceredo filed a class-action lawsuit against the Joint Commission, the influential nonprofit that both inspects hospitals’ performance and sets practice standards for their physicians. Hospitals must abide by the group’s standards, on opioids or anything else, in order to get reimbursed for care provided to Medicaid and Medicare patients.


Oklahoma doctor charged with murder in opioid deaths of five patients

An Oklahoma doctor was charged Friday with second-degree murder in the overdose deaths of at least five patients from the powerful painkillers and other drugs she prescribed, often in combinations that made up an addict’s “holy trinity” of pills, state investigators said.

Oklahoma’s attorney general announced five second-degree murder counts against Regan Nichols, whose patients died while she worked at a Midwest City clinic. An Oklahoma County judge also issued a warrant for her arrest.