30 Apr Former UES doctor sentenced to 20 years in prison for prescribing unnecessary opioids, causing patient to overdose
UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan — An 83-year-old former Upper East Side family doctor already busted for allegedly writing illegal prescriptions for highly-addictive painkillers has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for prescribing unnecessary oxycodone and fentanyl to a Staten Island man who fatally overdosed. Between...