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"(CNN)A Pennsylvania doctor was indicted Thursday on 19 counts, including charges related to the deaths of five patients to whom he had prescribed opioids, according to the Department of Justice. It alleges that Dr. Raymond Kraynak caused the deaths between 2013 and 2015 by "unlawfully distributing and dispensing controlled substances" to the five.
Prosecutors also say Kraynak prescribed nearly 3 million doses of opioids from January 2016 through July.
Kraynak, 60, of Mount Carmel was arrested Thursday. Prosecutors say he made a first appearance before a federal magistrate Thursday and was scheduled to appear Friday morning for a bail hearing in federal court."
The State of New York, namely the Governor, has made a big issue of writing for pain medicine. Physicians and dentists have to jump through hoops in order to give a patient 6 tablets of Acetaminophen with codeine which, by the way is probably what the average dentist prescribes at one time.
What took the pharmacies so long to find Dr. Kraynak? What took the Government so long to indict this drug peddler? He started writing significant numbers of prescriptions in 2013 and next week it is 2018.
The Government has to stop harassing caring physicians and dentists and shut down the pill pushers.
