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How some doctors avoid drug charges

A new ruling on opioid prescription cases means doctors who face charges might be able to escape harsher punishment

Salon · Oct 5, 2022

Doctors rush to use Supreme Court ruling to escape opioid charges

Dr. Nelson Onaro conceded last summer that he’d written illegal prescriptions, although he said he was thinking only of his patients. From a tiny clinic in Oklahoma, he doled out hundreds of opioid pills and dozens of fentanyl patches with no legitimate medical purpose.

Tribune News Service · Sep 19, 2022

Dobbs Opened Up an Attack on Doctors

The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe has made bad law and bad medicine

Reason · Jul 28, 2022

Courts should be cautious about putting patients with pain at risk

Doctors who already face intense pressure to curtail opioid prescriptions will be even more inclined to elevate drug control above pain control.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 2, 2022

SCOTUS Needs to Clarify the Line Between Doctors and Drug Dealers

Patients suffer when physicians who prescribe opioids in good faith can face decades in prison.

Reason · Mar 2, 2022

Justices seem to favor docs convicted in pain pill schemes

In a case stemming from the opioid addiction crisis, the Supreme Court appears ready to side with two imprisoned doctors who wrote thousands of prescriptions for pain medication in short periods

The Independent UK · Mar 1, 2022