Doctor Gets 18 Months For Prescribing Oxy Pills To 'Con Man'

By Pete Brush ( November 26, 2019, 3:24 PM EST) -- A federal judge sentenced a former New York doctor to 18 months in prison Tuesday for prescribing 1,900 oxycodone pills to a convicted felon and "con man" who then sold them to addicts, saying physicians must know there is a "very heavy price to be paid" for contributing to the opioid crisis....

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