VA doctor convicted for prescribing 500K opioid doses given new trial
A Virginia doctor sentenced to 40 years in prison for prescribing highly addictive opioids more than 500,000 times over a two-year period has been ruled by a federal appeals court, saying instructions given to jurors in his trial misrepresented the law. He was granted a retrial. . Joel Smithers was convicted in 2019 of more […]