Doctor Gets 40 Years For Illegally Prescribing More Than Half A Million Opioid Doses

A Virginia doctor received a 40-year prison sentence on Wednesday for illegally prescribing more than half a million doses of oxycodone, hydromorphone, fentanyl and other opioids to patients for years. Authorities say Dr. Joel Smithers operated a "pill mill" out of Martinsville, Va., located about 15 miles north of the Virginia-North Carolina border and about 175 miles southwest of Richmond. The U

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前にCBSに出ていたのとは別の医者。opioidとは何かを知っている今は40年の懲役も長くはないと思えるけど、認可薬（当時）の違法な処方でと考えると事実上の終身刑というのはどうなんだろとも。ああ併合罪がないのか