The judge is on the side of a doctor convicted of a painkiller plan

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Mark Sherman

Washington (AP) — Monday's Supreme Court is opioid addiction A doctor who is criminally liable for overprescribing a powerful analgesic in a case resulting from the crisis.

Judge Stephen Breyer proves that doctors know doctors are illegally prescribing powerful painkillers in violation of federal controlled substance law I wrote to the court that I had to do it. The

decision was made because the United States has confirmed deaths from record numbers of drug overdose, many of which are due to the highly deadly opioid fentanyl.

Evaluating the convictions of two doctors, each facing a prison for more than 20 years, the judge courts the patient and the doctor's advocate to distinguish between criminal activity and medical error. I have decided on the subject I asked for. sincerity.

I did so in the ruling. The prosecutor wrote, "We must prove beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant acted intentionally or intentionally in an unauthorized manner."

Doctors have already avoided prescribing opioids "against the best medical judgment" because of fear of aggressive prosecution, the National Pain Advocacy Center said. He told the court in a written submission.

However, the judge did not abandon the convictions of the two doctors whose appeal was heard in February. Instead, he ordered the Federal Court of Appeals to reconsider their case.

The court ruled an appeal from Xiulu Ruan in Mobile, Alabama, and Shakeel Kahn, a medical practitioner at Fort. Mojave, Arizona, Casper, Wyoming.

Luang has been in prison for 21 years. Kahn has been in jail for up to 25 years. They will have another opportunity to insist that their beliefs should be overturned.

Ruan and his partner James Couch were convicted of overprescribing the drug at the Alabama Clinic and the Physicians Pain Specialists at the pharmacy.

Kahn was convicted of a plot to illegally distribute and distribute deadly regulatory substances, such as the opioid analgesic oxycodone and the synthetic opioid fentanyl.

Jessica Birch of Lake Havasu City, Arizona was a Khan patient who died of overdose in 2015.

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