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Dozens of doctors in the United States prescribed opioid drugs to patients in exchange for money and sex

Dozens of healthcare workers in seven US states have been charged with illegally distributing millions of painkiller pills. Prescriptions for opioid drugs were exchanged for sex in some cases and cash in others. A doctor has been accused of regularly prescribing opioids to his friends on Facebook.

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According to the investigation, a doctor in northern Alabama "recruited prostitutes and other young women with whom he had sexual relations" to become his patients. He also organized parties in his house for people who use heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana, police officers came to the house several times to call for an overdose and because of other complaints, writes The New York Times.

The indictment featured 60 people, including 31 doctor, 7 pharmacists and 8 nurses. They took part in regimens that included the administration of opioids for medical procedures that were not really necessary. In some cases, according to prosecutors, doctors simply handed out signed prescriptions to clients.

"These cases include approximately 350 opioid prescriptions and more than 000 million pills, which is the equivalent of one opioid dose for every man, woman and child in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and West Virginia combined," said Brian Benczkowski. Assistant Attorney General in Charge of the Justice Department's Criminal Division.

Most of the charges were brought against people in these five states; one person was charged in Pennsylvania and one in Louisiana.

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Nationally, over 70 000 deaths in 2017 were caused by drug overdose, about a quarter of which were caused by prescription opioids. One of the highest rates of opioid overdose mortality was recorded in West Virginia, with Ohio in second place.

“The opioid epidemic is the deadliest drug crisis in American history, and Appalachia has suffered the consequences more than perhaps any other region,” said Attorney General William Barr.

Prosecutors accused health workers of being involved in a variety of schemes. Some of them were attended by small groups of doctors and their employees, and in other cases, according to the indictments, people acted alone.

According to prosecutors, some doctors performed unnecessary medical procedures to justify the pills they prescribed, while others simply handed out prescriptions without worrying about hiding the purpose of their actions.

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According to prosecutors, one of the doctors charged in Ohio in one prescription prescribed more controlled drugs than anyone else in the state. A pharmacy in Dayton, Ohio, was accused of illegally issuing more than 1,75 million tablets. A nurse in Tennessee was accused of prescribing hundreds of thousands of pills in exchange for sex.

In some cases, the number of drugs prescribed to the same patients at short intervals indicated that they could take up to 15 tablets per day, said the prosecutor's office.

The charges include illegal distribution of controlled substances and conspiracy to obtain narcotic drugs through fraud. Prosecutors said these charges could lead to imprisonment for up to 50 years.

Cases like this have already been prosecuted, including an operation by the Justice Department in June 2018, which resulted in 162 accused, including 76 doctors, being charged with the fraudulent prescription and distribution of opioids.

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