Instead of referring narcotic-addicted patients to methadone clinics and treatment centers, he capitalized on their misery. How many people OD'd, killed a child in a DUI, or lost everything they had thanks to this guy?

With prescribing practices like that, I don't think many chronic pain patients were part of his practice- I can't believe it was anything other than addicts who couldn't believe the huge score they made with a doctor who accepts Medicaid and prescribes Oxy just by asking for it- please, the guy was committing Medicaid fraud, he was in it for the money, if he helped someone inadvertently along the way that's fine, but that wasn't his intention.

This is not one of those stories of a pain management physician wrongfully accused of overprescribing, when all he wanted to do was treat a human being with dignity and compassion. This guy is a criminal who got caught.

I'm sorry to hear you have breast cancer, but what would have happened if you had seen this guy and he got you dependent on Oxy, only to get busted a few years later, and now you're stuck with an Oxy dependence and no other doctor wants to continue prescribing it after finding out you used to get it from a convicted felon?

-yawkaw