SCOTUS Rules in Favor of Pill Mill Docs

[Jimmy Higgins]

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This bothers me a bit because it provides prosecution with virtually no avenues to deal with such a situation.

Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the majority, said that for the prosecution of the doctors to be successful, the government "must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knowingly or intentionally acted in an unauthorized manner."

My FIL would tell me about parents trying to get pain meds for their kids so that they could use them. He'd report the situations. Effectively, SCOTUS ruled that doctors don't have to try to prevent pain-med abuse and laissez faire attention to the patient is enough.