The doctor’s arrest is part of a new and growing offensive in America’s battle against the abusive use of opioids, which kill an average of 91 people a day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Law enforcement agents aren’t just going after drug dealers and Mexican cartels — they’re also targeting pharmaceutical companies and doctors, who they say are irresponsibly flooding the nation with potent painkillers, and holding them responsible for overdose deaths.
Continue reading: A doctor prescribed so many painkillers, she’s been charged with murdering her patients, authorities say
The Secular Jurist 
Does anyone know how much doctors get from pharmaceutical corporations to prescribe those opioids?
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See: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/us/payments-to-doctors-by-pharmaceutical-companies-raise-issues-of-conflicts.html
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Thanks!
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$$$ And I bet she got a lot of lovely overseas trips from the drug company.
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Yes, see the link I just posted for Mordanicus.
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Yep! Had a friend who worked for Merc, and she said the files they had on doctors, and their “wants,” was like something out of the CIA.
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Good grief!
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Think about how many people die from “legal” drugs, how many die from illegal drugs and how many dealers from each group are in prison.
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Exactly. What determines who goes to prison has nothing to do with the harm they cause, and has everything to do with the arbitrary and often corrupt application of legality.
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Including the many personal and class prejudices contained in the assessment of said “legalities.”
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It is good to see powerful entities like counties and states going after Big Pharma drug pushers.
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They should’ve gone after them years ago before it became a crisis.
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Were the pharmacists who filled her prescriptions charged as co-conspirators in the crime?
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I guess not. It wasn’t reported in the article.
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